{"product_id":"an-inner-silence-the-portraits-of-henri-cartierbresson-9780500543177","title":"An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"No one in the twentieth century created more instantly recognizable images than Cartier-Bresson.\"Denver Post  Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was perhaps the finest and most influential image maker of the twentieth century  and his portraits are among his best-known work. Over a fifty year period  he photographed some of the most eminent personalities of the era  as well as ordinary people  chosen as subjects because of their striking and unusual features.  In 2003  the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson  which was created to provide a permanent home for his collected works  opened in Paris. This book is published to coincide with the first exhibition at the Fondation that is drawn entirely from those archives  and it features both well-known images and previously unpublished portraits.  Each portrait has been chosen because it perfectly embodies Cartier-Bressons description of what he was attempting to communicate in his photographs: \"Im seeking above all an inner silence. I am trying to translate the personality and not an expression.\" The portraits reproduced herediscreet  without artifice  their subjects frozen in timeconfirm once more the singular gift of Cartier-Bresson who instinctively knew in which revealing fraction of a second to click the shutter. 100 illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279639142453,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500543178","price":59.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500543177.jpg?v=1780604360","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/an-inner-silence-the-portraits-of-henri-cartierbresson-9780500543177","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}