CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri. The Europeans: Photographs. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1955). Folio, original red, blue and yellow pictorial paper boards designed by Miró.
First edition in English, with 114 large full-page photogravures and cover designed by Joan Miró.
This collection of photographs focuses on the faces and scenes of Europe as captured by the lens of Cartier-Bresson’s Leica camera. “Cartier-Bresson has a special interest in photographing people and in capturing the essence of what has not previously been seen. He is famous for his theory of the “decisive moment”—that is, seizing the split second when the subject stands revealed in its most significant aspect… Today he ranks as one of the most important and influential photographers of this century” (Blodgett, 96). In The Europeans, he has made “a permanent record of feeling, sun and shadow, the happy and free, the tragic and doomed, the quintessential Europe of our time.” Published the same year as the French first edition. Original caption booklet laid in.
Without scarce acetate dust wrapper Photographs beautiful and fine. Covers bright and unfaded, rear joint and inner hinges with expert repair. An extremely good copy.
First edition in English, with 114 large full-page photogravures and cover designed by Joan Miró.
This collection of photographs focuses on the faces and scenes of Europe as captured by the lens of Cartier-Bresson’s Leica camera. “Cartier-Bresson has a special interest in photographing people and in capturing the essence of what has not previously been seen. He is famous for his theory of the “decisive moment”—that is, seizing the split second when the subject stands revealed in its most significant aspect… Today he ranks as one of the most important and influential photographers of this century” (Blodgett, 96). In The Europeans, he has made “a permanent record of feeling, sun and shadow, the happy and free, the tragic and doomed, the quintessential Europe of our time.” Published the same year as the French first edition. Original caption booklet laid in.
Without scarce acetate dust wrapper Photographs beautiful and fine. Covers bright and unfaded, rear joint and inner hinges with expert repair. An extremely good copy.
