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This remarkable book explores the key role Paris played in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s legendary artistic career, and the way he looked at the city he lived in—and loved. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) was "the eye of the 20th century" and one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers. Paris was his home, on and off, for most of his life and the photographs he took of the city and its people are some of his most recognizable and beloved images. In this volume are 160 photographs taken from a career lasting more than fifty years. Mostly in black and white, this selection reveals the strong influence of pioneering documentary photographer Eugene Atget (1857–1927) on Cartier-Bresson,...
Presents a catalog of an exhibition of photographs focusing on blue collar workers.
This is an authoritative and insightful survey of the evolving field of photograph conservation. This volume is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession.
He occasionally made photographs until his death in poverty there in 1884, leaving behind some of the most dazzling photographic images of his era.".
This volume focuses specifically on the applications, possibilities, and limitations of handheld X-ray fluorescence devices in art conservation and archaeology.
In 1946 Cartier-Bresson travelled to New York with about 300 prints in his suitcase, bought a scrapbook , glued each one in and brought that album to MoMAs curators. Here, published for the first time in its entirety, is a facsimile of that famous scrapbook.
Visual and material sources are central to historical practice and this is a much-needed introduction to using artefacts as evidence.
Romantic Rome--the Eternal City in word and image, from Goethe and Byron to James, from etching and watercolor to photograph
A resource for the photographic conservator, conservation scientist, curator, as well as professional collector, this volume synthesizes both the masses of research that has been completed to date and the international standards that have been established on the subject.