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Saturday, 25 August 2018

Cartier Bresson collected interviews

 This is a wonderful pocket size book that you can dip into anytime. The page colour is not the standard bright white but a gentle off white which is quite resting for the eyes while you read it.

It is laid out in interview/ conversation style, each chapter is a discussion with questions in bold type and answers. Making it easy to put down and pick up without loosing the thread. I have read this book three times in a row it is that interesting.

 

This is the first time since the interviews were first published that they have been translated from French and put into one book. The book covers twelve interviews from 1951 – 1998. He talks about his passion for books and art about being a prisoner of war, travelling to the far east and setting up Magnum.


I have really enjoyed reading the interviews I was not sure of the format before hand but have discovered you take in far more and analyse what has been said far better than if I had listened.

Published by Aperture.