Just How It was

Anne Hollander

  • Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson edited by E.H. Gombrich
    Thames and Hudson, 144 pp, £32.00, February 1998, ISBN 0 05 005421 X
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson: Europeans edited by Jean Clair
    Thames and Hudson, 231 pp, £29.95, January 1998, ISBN 0 500 28052 5

Like Titian’S, Cartier-Bresson’s work began as the mirror of one epoch and is ending as that of another, simply because he invented the best mirror and kept polishing it Cartier-Bresson’s influence has been immense since his beginnings, not just on photography but on cinema and photojournalism, so that he has been largely responsible for 20th-century notions of what a superior realistic camera image should look like. Which is to say, for our sense of how modern life looks.

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