A up-to-date edition of Centre Pompidou's reference monograph.

This lavishly illustrated work traces Cartier-Bresson's development as a photographer, activist, journalist, and artist. The three-way perspective – historical, contextual, and reflexive – highlights the complexity of the man nicknamed "the eye of the 20th century." The archives gathered here reveal the astonishing diversity of his work: photographs and plates, publications, interviews, notes, letters, descriptions, and anecdotes recounted by those who knew him the best.