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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Kyoto, Japan
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- $7,000 - 9,000
$11,875
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
1965
17 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. (44.8 x 29.8 cm)
Signed in ink and copyright credit blindstamp in the margin.
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In the fall of 1965, Henri Cartier-Bresson was invited by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun to visit Japan. Taking two expeditions, one in the north, the second venturing south, he covered much of the country, documenting all walks of life.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French | B. 1908 D. 2004Candidly capturing fleeting moments of beauty among the seemingly ordinary happenings of daily life, Henri Cartier-Bresson's work is intuitive and observational. Initially influenced by the Surrealists' "aimless walks of discovery," he began shooting on his Leica while traveling through Europe in 1932, revealing the hidden drama and idiosyncrasy in the everyday and mundane. The hand-held Leica allowed him ease of movement while attracting minimal notice as he wandered in foreign lands, taking images that matched his bohemian spontaneity with his painterly sense of composition.Cartier-Bresson did not plan or arrange his photographs. His practice was to release the shutter at the moment his instincts told him the scene before him was in perfect balance. This he later famously titled "the decisive moment" — a concept that would influence photographers throughout the twentieth century.
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