Henri Cartier-Bresson. Chine 1948-1949, 1958. Collections – Expositions from the innovations of abstraction

from the innovations of abstraction to the questions of minimalism

By moving an a priori religious object like Haitian Vodou into the field of illness

Raised by his stepmother Livia in the cult of power

have gone through history with the prestigious title of "Quran of the Imams"

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Henri Cartier-Bresson. Chine 1948-1949, 1958. Collections – Expositions from the innovations of abstractionDrawing on the extensive archives of the HCB Foundation, this book retraces and analyzes one of the key moments in Henri Cartier Bresson's career: his stay in China from December 1948 to September 1949. Following a commission from Life magazine, and shortly after the creation of the Magnum cooperative agency, HCB made this trip at the time of the transition between the nationalist regime of Chiang Kai shek and the communist regime of Mao Zedong. More