Looking, drawing and the shape of a moment
Henri Cartier-Bresson is celebrated for photographs that bring fleeting human events into precisely balanced compositions. Painting and drawing were also lasting interests, and his attention to line and spatial relationships connects those practices with his photography.
Vowels presents that less familiar side of his work. The separate portfolio in the catalog contains color woodcuts translated from his watercolors, showing another way that a scene can be organized through shape, color and the printed sheet.
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Magnum Photos: Henri Cartier-Bresson
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