Assouline, Pierre – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:13:08 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Assouline, Pierre – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Henri Cartier-Bresson https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/henri-cartier-bresson/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=43733 The definitive biography of the greatest photographer of modern times – a vital addition to the library of everyone with an interest in photography.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was the eye of the 20th century. His lens chronicled the decisive moments of his time – from Chinese communist victories to the Spanish Civil War and the Liberation of Paris. A co-founder of Magnum Photos, Cartier-Bresson produced unparalleled portraits of his contemporaries, capturing the spirit of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and William Faulkner.

Cartier-Bresson took Pierre Assouline into his confidence over a number of years, detailing his youthful devotion to surrealism, lifelong passion for drawing, and experiences of war and prison camps. This sensitive biography emerges from a meeting of two minds, revealed with the same truth as one of Cartier Bresson’s photographs.

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