books by Agnes Sire (photographs photograph portraits)

books by Agnes Sire

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5 reviews

Thames & Hudson, 2007

Process of Selection
I have liked HCB for about six years. I first saw his picture where a man, caught in mid-air,jumps across a puddle. I still think that this is one of the best photographs ever made. In the scrapbook, the reader gets to see the many different shots, that made up the bundle from which one image got selected to be published. While quite a few of the images not selected have their own charm, the ...

Walker Evans & Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photograph America
Jean-Francois Chevrier

Steidl & Partners, 2008

Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson belonged to the same generation and shared an insatiable intellectual curiosity. Their photographs were exhibited together in 1935 at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and for 18 brief months--between 1946 and 1947--they were both working in the U.S. while Cartier-Bresson was preparing his show at The Museum of Modern Art. At the time, Evans had already published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with James ...

An Inner Silence: The Portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson

8 reviews
Agnes Sire, Jean-Luc Nancy

Thames & Hudson, 2006

An eye that truly saw the inner silence . . .
As you browse the millions of photos available on Flickr and other web photo sharing sites, it is apparent that most people wielding a camera do not - cannot - aspire to the special talent of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Renowned for capturing the "decisive moment," Cartier-Bresson was also a highly skilled portraitist. Ninety-seven of his portraints appear here accompanied by one mercifully short ...

Saul Leiter

1 review

Steidl & Partners, 2008

Amzing images from an underated artist
"I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learnt to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything." Saul Leiter. The other day a package arrived from London. It was the Saul Leiter book "Reprint" by Steidl. After ...

Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson And Walker Evans: Documentary And Anti-Graphic Photographs
Daniel Girardin, Ian Jeffrey, ...

Steidl, 2004

In 1935, when the influential New York collector Julien Levy conceived the exhibition Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs by Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans & Alvarez Bravo, no one could imagine the eminent place this trio would come to occupy in the avant-garde of their time, nor the immense influence they would have on future generations of photographers. Collected here for the first time since the famous 1935 exhibition, this treasure of ...

An Inner Silence
Agnes (FRW)/ Nancy, Jean-Luc (INT) Sire

W W Norton & Co Inc, 2006

Joan Colom: Les Gens Du Raval
Marta Gili

Steidl, 2006

In the last years of the 1950s, Joan Colom spent every weekend exploring the "bas-fonds" of Barcelona, the Raval neighborhood known today as the Barrio Chino. Interest both in remaining discreet and in breaking with the aesthetic traditions of his elders caused him to begin working without aiming his camera; only while printing did he frame each image. On the street and in the darkroom, he saw himself as an impassioned witness to social theater ...