Description

Henri Cartier-Bresson – Zeichnungen
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel, 2004
Hardcover, 128 pages, German
Size: 28×25.4cm
New in seal

About fifteen years ago, Henri Cartier-Bresson – born in Chanteloup in 1908 and then in his mid-sixties – put down his famous Leica and picked up his pencil again. He had decided to return to painting and drawing, the passion of his life, and to cultivate and tend them like a garden. “Photography,” he once said, “has always been a sketchbook for me, something like drawings of the moment.” This first collection of Cartier-Bresson’s drawings is a revelation. It not only confirms qualities that had already distinguished his photographs: the questioning, probing gaze and the art of capturing the essence of a situation, bordering on magic. It also expresses the inner tension, the perseverance, the sure sense of form of the artist – and, above all, a masterly control: one senses the happiness, feels the restrained emotion of the person who brings these landscapes, these skeletons of gigantic animals, these nudes resting under his gaze to life. The volume contains sixty-five drawings and tempera sheets created between 1966 and 1988.