Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson And Walker Evans: Documentary And Anti-Graphic Photographs: A Reconstruction of the 1935 Exhibition at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York

by Jeff Rosenheim (Editor), Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Photographer), Henri Cartier-Bresson (Photographer)

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 images by three great masters of twentieth-century photography places us face to face with the history of the medium in the making. The show was one of the first exhibitions Henri Cartier-Bresson ever had, and this book is the last project he considered before his death in 2004.

Genres: Photography

192 pages, Hardcover

First published June 15, 2004

Reviews

[Matias Andrade · Rating 4 out of 5]

The philosophy, historical progression, and exemplar photographs of the fathers of street photography, this book satisfies all these elements. It's definitely more of a showcase than it is a historical or philosophical manifesto, but it helps develop an eye for "the decisive moment".