Henri Cartier-Bresson : Le grand jeu /
In the early 1970s, at the request of his friends and collectors John and Dominique Menil, Henri Cartier-Bresson went through the thousands of prints in his archives with the idea of choosing the most important and significant works of his career. He picked 385 photographs, which were printed in a f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French English Italian |
| Language Notes: | Texts in French, English, and Italian with English, French and Italian translation; also includes English, French and Italian translation from original Spanish manuscripts. |
| Published: |
Venezia : [Paris] :
Marsilio ; Bibliothèque nationale de France,
[2020]
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| Edition: | Première édition ; first edition ; prima edizione. |
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| Summary: | In the early 1970s, at the request of his friends and collectors John and Dominique Menil, Henri Cartier-Bresson went through the thousands of prints in his archives with the idea of choosing the most important and significant works of his career. He picked 385 photographs, which were printed in a format of 12 x 16 inches at his most trusted laboratory in Paris between 1972 and 1973, in five copies each. This so-called 'Master Set' has never before been published in its entirety. Now, photographer Annie Leibovitz, film director Wim Wenders, writer Javier Cercas, chief curator of the Department of Prints and Photographs at the Bibliot'que Nationale de France Sylvie Aubenas and collector FraEois Pinault have been invited to each choose roughly 50 pictures from this Master Set. Through their selection, each of them shares a personal vision of the work of this great artist. 'Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu' is divided into two parts: the first presents the personal choice of each of the curators, accompanied by a text written for the occasion; the second presents the whole of the Master Set as it was assembled by Cartier-Bresson. This unprecedented volume thus constitutes the most personal, and indeed the most authoritative, panorama of his oeuvre yet published. |
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| Item Description: | Catalog of an itinerant exhibition held at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, March 22, 2020-January 10, 2021 and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France, March 16-July 11, 2021. Joint edition. Bound. |
| Physical Description: | 303 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9788829704200 8829704202 |