Henri Cartier-Bresson in India

About this book

Produced over six visits to India from 1947 through the early 80s these dramatic images are shaped by an eye and mind legendary for their intelligent empathy and graphic honesty. Cartier-Bressons pictures of refugee camps after the partition speak with the same passion as those of the Maharaja of Barodeas birthday celebration. This seminal artists extraordinary gift of observation and his connections to the leaders of post-colonial India inform all these photographs revealing the essence of a country that has long captured the worlds imagination.