Henri Cartier Bresson book online

flyingdutchie

I don't know where else to post this, but if you can't afford the $2000 or so on e-bay, take a look at this link for a quick afternoon inspiration:
http://www.e-photobooks.com/cartier-bresson/decisive-moment.html
or
http://www.e-photobooks.com/cartier-bresson/decisive-moment.swf

pathfinder

Henri Cartier-Bresson is a favorite of many of us here.

I have some mis-givings about the wisdom/appropriateness of someone just copying and displaying his entire book on the web.

You just posted the link and that is fine, but maybe it is more appropriate in The Big Picture than in the Landscape forum, so I am going to move it, Dutchie.

flyingdutchie

pathfinder wrote:

Henri Cartier-Bresson is a favorite of many of us here.

I have some mis-givings about the wisdom/appropriateness of someone just copying and displaying his entire book on the web.

You just posted the link and that is fine, but maybe it is more appropriate in The Big Picture than in the Landscape forum, so I am going to move it, Dutchie.

Thanks!

I think it is legit. Magnum Photos shows this book online as well:
http://tinyurl.com/yo3hut

(I did not know i posted it in the Landscape forum. I thought that street-photography was part of that forum as well)

pathfinder

Its name is Field and Street Dutchie, you are correct about that, but books reports, links etc have usually not been in the photo threads

Not to worry, its all good.

rutt

Well it's interesting. Magnum is selling licenses to use low res images. The magnum images are better quality (they don't look like they were scanned by a fax machine) but low res. They say the high res images are not available. The e-photo-books thing is probably not authorized. I believe they would have had to license the images from Magnum and then they would have gotten smaller images with better contrast.

Whatever. This is no substitute for owning The Decisive Moment, but for a little money you can own one of the in print Cartier-Bresson books and see the images in a quality nearly as good as the originals. You won't get the confusing but entertaining essay at the back of The Decisive Moment but unless you are a HCB schooler, that might be a good thing.

Amazon has this for $18, and this for $22. I have not seen the former but own the later and it's a fine way to get this expereince.

My all time favorite HCB book is In India. Amazon also has this for just over $20. These are not HCB's most famous images, so it's worth owning this particular book as some of the best of these are not included anywhere else. This is a different HCB than the French street photographer. This shows him a photojournalist, especially covering the last days of Gandhi, the end of the Raj, and immediate aftermath of Gandhi's death. It also shows HCB the landscape photographer, something you might not have really thought about. But when he did shoot landscapes, well IMHO they are as interesting as any.

In short, spend a few bucks and buy one or two of these books. The online experience just isn't a match.