![]() ![]() The top of the spine is bumped with a small chip at the top right-hand corner. The spine is darkened and lightly foxed, especially along the front gutter. Handsomely bound folio edition (14.5" x 10.5") in white boards with designs by Henri Matisse on the front and rear boards which have lightly scattered foxing to their top edges. Leggera macchia d?umidità al piatto anteriore della sovraccoperta, ma nell?insieme ottimo esemplare. Prima edizione americana di "Images à la Sauvette" pubblicata contemporaneamente, nel 1952, all?edizione francese da Simon & Schuster di New York. L?incisione e la stampa sono opera dei maestri tipografi Draeger Frères di Paris. L?edizione francese di Verve ("Images à la Sauvette") e l?edizione americana di Simon and Schuster ("The decisive moment"), sono state concepite e composte da Teriade con la collaborazione di Marguerite Lang. Simon della Simon and Schuster: una sezione sugli aspetti tecnici di particolare interesse per i fotografi dilettanti e professionisti. Testo "A technical report to photographers" di Richard L. Introduzione di Henri Cartier-Bresson, sulla propria filosofia della fotografia e dell?arte. All?interno un inserto (leggero restauro) di 12 pp., con l?elenco numerato delle fotografie e le relative didascalie ("captions") stampate. Sovraccoperta originale illustrata a colori da Henri Matisse, al piatto anteriore e posteriore. Cartonatura editoriale tutta tela muta, con titolo e autore in nero al dorso. 164 non numerate, con 126 fotografie in bianco e nero fuori testo, a piena e a doppia pagina, riprodotte in héliogravure, di Henri Cartier Bresson. In collaboration with Éditions Verve of Paris. Dust Jacket Condition: sovraccoperta illustrata a col. With the Captions brochure loosely inserted. Small previous owner signature top of front free end paper. Spine toned, small 1 1/4" chip at head of spine, rear board very faintly toned. White illustrated boards, designs by Henri Matisse. It was completed the 22nd of July, 1952." Folio, 126 photographs, text, Index. The engravings and printing is the work of the master printers Draeger Freres of Paris. The French Edition by Verve (Images a la Sauvette) and the American Edition by Simon and Schuster (The Decisive Moment), were conceived and composed by Teriade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang. At the rear of the folio is the following information on the production of the volume: "This book, with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs from the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera." (Washington Post, 1957). There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. In his own words, "Photography is not like painting. 126 stunning full page black and white photographs from around the world by the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004), considered to be the founder of photojournalism, who developed the method of candid or street photography from which the expression "the decisive moment" derives. ![]()
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