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1947 FIRST EDITION OF THEPHOTOGRAPHS OF HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, SIGNED BY HIM

(CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri). KIRSTEIN, Lincoln and NEWHALL, Beaumont. The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1947). Octavo, original tan paper boards, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box.

First edition of the earliest book devoted to Cartier-Bresson’s work, with 42 photogravures, and signed by him on the half title.

This compilation for a Museum of Modern Art exhibit contains 42 images by Henri Cartier-Bresson and is the earliest book compiling his photographs. At the time of the book’s publication in 1947, Cartier-Bresson was already the “archetype of the itinerant photojournalist during that heyday of photojournalism immediately after the war.” His “wit, lyricism and ability to see the geometry of a fleeting image and capture it in the blink of an eye reshaped and created a new standard for the art of photography” (New York Times).

Photographs clean, book fine. Scarce dust jacket very good with expert restoration. An unusual early Cartier-Bresson title, rare and desirable signed by him and in jacket.