“In Japan, where my name was published in the newspapers as Hank Carter, I regretted not having slanted eyes so that I wouldn’t be noticed. This is why I don’t want to be photographed” (Henri Cartier Bresson).
The series of 40 black and white portraits presented here for the first time offers a new image of Cartier Bresson captured in his private moments, with his family and while cultivating his passions for photography and painting.
As Ferdinando Scianna writes, “these photographs have nothing to do with the type of image that might be taken from a family album, a product of chance. Placed side by side, they form a rich, complex, subtle portrait of the man, the product of a long and very painstaking process of psychological and visual study which is truly photographic in nature”.
“In Japan, where my name was published in the newspapers as Hank Carter, I regretted not having slanted eyes so that I wouldn’t be noticed. This is why I don’t want to be photographed” (Henri Cartier Bresson).
The series of 40 black and white portraits presented here for the first time offers a new image of Cartier Bresson captured in his private moments, with his family and while cultivating his passions for photography and painting.
As Ferdinando Scianna writes, “these photographs have nothing to do with the type of image that might be taken from a family album, a product of chance. Placed side by side, they form a rich, complex, subtle portrait of the man, the product of a long and very painstaking process of psychological and visual study which is truly photographic in nature”.