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Creator:
Parr, Martin, born 1952
Title(s):
The English = Les Anglais / Martin Parr, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Additional Title(s):
Anglais : Henri Cartier-Bresson , Martin Parr
Published/Created:
Paris : Delpire & Co., 2022.
Physical Description:
1 volume (no pagination) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Holdings:
Reference Library
TR820.5.E54 P37 2022 (LC)
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Classification:
Books
Notes:
This book accompanies the exhibition “Reconciliation” presented at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 8 November 2022 - 12 February 2023.
In 1962, Henri-Cartier Bresson accepted a commission from British television ITV/ABC to make a documentary on the north of England. Broadcast only once and unearthed by the Cinémathèque Française last year, it was made from still photographs. We discover previously unknown photographs, that make an amusing portrait of English people at work and at leisure. In 1989, Martin Parr, a photographer already recognized for his controversial color photographs of the British “middle class”, applied for membership in the Magnum Photos cooperative agency. At the time, Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-founder of the agency, strongly opposed it. A meeting between the two photographers finally allowed a personal “reconciliation” as well as the coexistence within the agency of their diametrically opposed conceptions of photography. Martin Parr finally joined the agency in 1994 and even served as President (2013-2017). The interest of this book is to qualify these divergences of point of view which, according to Henri Cartier-Bresson, belong to “two different solar systems”. The previously unknown photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson to be discovered there resonate in a disturbing way with those made by Martin Parr, more than 20 years apart in the same region of northern England -- Publisher.
Subject Terms:
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908–2004 -- Exhibitions.
Documentary photography -- 21st century.
Parr, Martin, born 1952 -- Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic -- 21st century.
Contributors:
Hébel, François, author of essay.
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908–2004, photographer.
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, host institution.
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