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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexican Notebooks 1934-1964 | 
| Authors: Henri Cartier-bresson, Cartier-bresson Bresson
Creators: Carlos Fuentes, Michelle Beaver
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $19.77
You Save: $10.18 (34%)
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 273561
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 81
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 050054199X
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.9972092
EAN: 9780500541999
ASIN: 050054199X
Publication Date: April 1996
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This new book brings together for the first time a collection of photographs taken on two separate visits to Mexico - the first in 1934, just as the young twenty-seven-year-old was embarking on his photographic career, and the second some thirty years later. The dramatic images, preceded by a thought-provoking commentary from Carlos Fuentes, record with brutal accuracy the panorama of everyday life - an execution wall; crowded markets; stark, dusty landscapes; children playing in alleys - a unique record of a country and its people that includes some of the most famous and powerful photographic images of the century.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Inspirational, but limited June 27, 2002
Kasey M. Moctezuma (San Diego, CA USA)
This collection of photographs from the author's two visits to Mexico are quite striking. Cartier-Bresson knows his craft well, and yet I feel a slight disappointment in the book, as I had hoped that his range of subject matter would be a little more varied, and perhaps show a few more pictures of the countryside. This collection of photos is nice, but consists mostly of shots of a sociological nature, from the poor classes of Mexican society. I understand that this is Cartier-Bresson's personal photo essay, but perhaps he could have widened his scope of Mexico to have included a wider array of subject matter. I do like the pictures, there just should have been more of a variance of them. If you like Cartier-Bresson, his book of India is simply fantastic.
 an honest and delicate look at mexico October 19, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
this is a very touching and intimate look at everyday life, but Cartier-Brenson's experienced eye has also captured the powerful light that alludes to heat, the mood of poverty, and the history that pervades this country. At different points this volume is disturbing, humorous, spiritual, and abstract. a masterpiece.
Mexico uncovered April 26, 1999
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
There is a consistant light which runs through Cartier-Bresson's work. It is the late afternoon light or the early morning glow, that enters his leica. We see it in the streets, behind the waitress in the Mexican bar as she leans unknowingly towards Cartier-Bresson's lens. It's surrounded by this light that Cartier-Bresson feels most at home, even in Mexico. Mexican notebooks is full of all Cartier-Bresson's hallmarks; real people in real situations. Circumstance and the click of his shutter fixes them in their descisive moment. This is a collection no photojournalist should be without.
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