Henri Cartier-Bresson (HCB) - Photographer

[tylw]

111: Hong Kong. 1949. It was the day of the Kwantung Handicap—the biggest race of the year. Between races at the Hong Kong Track just before the Communists reached the border.

112: CHINA. Shanghai. 1949. Two White Russian refugees stand on the corner of Jaffilou and Mercierlou (avenue Joffre and avenue du Cardinal-Mercier) discussing the situation after the Communists have taken over the city.

113: CHINA. Shanghai. June 1949. Communist parade. The banner proclaims: "Against bureaucratic Capitalism, Feudalism, and Imperialism."

114: CHINA. Shanghai. 1949. Students in the August 1st victory parade demonstrate against the black market as they march along the Bund. In the background, the Soong Bank owned by Chiang Kaï-shek's father-in-law.

115: CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A tea-house, before the Communists came to the city. It is customary for people to carry their pet birds in cages to tea-houses.

116: CHINA. Jiangsu. Nanking. April 1949. A canal that joins the Yangtse River is seen from the Nanking Walls.

117: CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A eunuch of the imperial court of the last dynasty.

118: IRAN. Isfahan. Alla Verdi Khan bridge. 1950.Washing carpets.

119: EGYPT. Luxor. 1950. Peasants fishing in the ebbing floor waters of the Nile.

120: EGYPT. Cairo. 1950. An amateur of scarabs in an antique shop in the Bazaar.

 

[tylw]

121: EGYPT. Cairo. 1950. At the Egyptian Museum.

122: EGYPT. A village market held on graveyard country across the Nile from Luxor. 1950. The people are called "rats of the grave," for they are continually digging and finding new graves to raise their meager income. The government has built them a new village, but they won't leave their old homes, and they say, "If we do not stay here, thieves come from outside, from the south and east, from the west and north. Let us stay here and make our small living this way, for we are the protectors of the graves."

123: IRAN. Teheran. 1950. One of the palaces of the Shah of Iran. The walls are a mosaic of bits of mirror.

124: EGYPT. Cairo. 1950. Peasant women at the Bazaar. They put whatever savings they have into gold.

125: EGYPT. Cairo. 1950. This is the Cities of the Dead, the counterpart of the active city of Cairo proper. Workers twist cotton here, their threads stretched between graves. The Cities of the Dead is not just a cemetery, but a city with streets of houses—all empty, because they are for the dead only. Behind this wall is a house containing the graves of a wealthy family. Poor ones have their graves scattered about between the houses. This woman is bringing food to cotton-workers.

 

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It's great to see a thread devoted to HCB. Thank you.

 

[Diorette]

Cant' believe there wasn't already a thread on him.

Thank you tylw. Karma

 

[Multitudes]

Thank you for all the amazing beautiful photos Tylw ...

Second avenue in the fifth, NYC(1947)

Texas

Siphnos, Greece(1961)

artnet.de

 

[Multitudes]

Palais Royale

Alberto Giacometti, rue d'Alésia, Paris

Children Playing in Ruins, Seville, Spain(1933)

artnet.de

 

[tylw]

Thanks all for your support and karma! I was so lazy about posting because of work. I found an old HCB book last month at a book fair, so I will try to post some big scans soon!

I've also found a link to the full HCB video with Charlie Rose. It's a goldmine, I promise!

http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2000/07/06/2/a-conversation-with-henri-cartier-bresson

 

[beatrice_neumann]

There's a relatively new exhibit on Henri Cartier-Bresson at the International Center for Photography, so it seems as good as time as any to start a thread on him.

HCB's work is AMAZING, but it takes a lot of soul-searching or gut (depending on your previous predilection) to appreciate it. I would love to hear what you all think of his work!

He is a God-like figure in my book....

 

[sarah13]

So glad to see a thread on HCB I love his work and I have a few of his books, India, Euopeans that I look through all the time. I also love Josef Sudek's work

 

[unipine]

One of my favorites



(my scan)