The People of Moscow.

CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri.

Item Number: 136349

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.

First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work by the famed photographer. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “a Aleida avec mon souvenir le meillem Henri Cartier-Bresson 17.12.69.” Very good in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment. Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947.