Henri Cartier-Bresson

Michel Frizot

Agnès Sire

In 1946 Cartier-Bresson travelled to New York with about 300 prints in his suitcase, bought a scrapbook , glued each one in and brought that album to MoMAs curators. Here, published for the first time in its entirety, is a facsimile of that famous scrapbook.

Photographs 1932-1946

Henri Cartier-Bresson Scrapbook

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

les 6 X 13 de Jacques-Henri Lartigue

Le passé composé

"Photomontage was the innovation of John Heartfield and Georg Grosz, engineer-artists who in 1916 brought photographic images together according to new aesthetic rules. This collection shows the wide range of its application to revolutionary art and propaganda, advertising and graphic design, as photomontage was adopted as a primary means of visual expression by the leading avant-garde movements of the inter-war years". -Back cover.

Experimental Photography Between the Wars

Photomontage

Colin Harding

Pierre Albert

A collection of entries that help chronicle the history of photography, explaining the different techniques that have been used and defining the common terms used in the field.

A New History of Photography

Germaine Krull (1897–1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During World War II, her leftist political beliefs led her to spend time in Brazil and French Equatorial Africa, and afterward she traveled to Southeast Asia and later settled in Northern India. She was a remarkable artist who was a pioneer in her field, particularly in regard to the development of the photographic book and photojournalism. This exhibition catalogue reveals how Krull balanced her avant-garde, artistic vision and her active role in the media, highlighting more than 150 images produced between 1924 and 1945, some of which appeared in her monographic books and others of which were produced for commercial publication. This major overview of Krull's work and career sheds new light on one of the great female photographers of the 20th century.

Germaine Krull

Bertrand Lavédrine

Jean-Paul Gandolfo

Sibylle Monod

In recent years, interest in old photographs has grown significantly among a broad public, from collectors, conservators, and archivists to amateurs seeking to preserve precious family albums. Although the medium of photography is barely 150 years old, its relatively brief history has witnessed the birth of a wide range of photographic processes, each of which poses unique conservation challenges. Photographs of the Past: Processes and Preservation provides a comprehensive introduction to the practice of photograph preservation, bringing together more information on photographic processes than any other single source. Introductory chapters cover issues of terminology; the rest of the book is divided into three parts: positives, negatives, and conservation. Each chapter focuses on a single process--daguerreotypes, albumen negatives, black-and-white prints, and so on--providing an overview of its history and materials and tracing the evolution of its technology. This book will serve as an irreplaceable reference work for conservators, curators, collectors, dealers, conservation students, and photographers, as well as those in the general public seeking information on preserving this ubiquitous form of cultural heritage.

Process and Preservation

Photographs of the Past

Michel Frizot et Cédric de Veigy donnent ici à voir une collection unique de photographies d'amateurs glanées depuis plus de vingt ans. Les premiers pas hésitants d'un enfant, une bulle de savon prête à s'envoler, la quiétude d'une sieste : ces images, réalisées par des hommes et des femmes anonymes, évoquent le quotidien, à la fois anodin et singulier, passé et présent. Avec Photo trouvée, Michel Frizot et Cédric de Veigy invitent le regard à s'attarder : assemblées en dix-huit mouvements, en fonction de leur atmosphère ou de leur rythme, ces images touchent à l'universalité des situations, des comportements et des sentiments, et forment, ensemble, une étonnante anthropologie de l'ordinaire.

Photo Trouvee

Cédric de Veigy

The best pages from the sensational photo magazine published in France in the 1920s and 1930s.

The Story of a Magazine

The first visual chronicle of a little-known chapter in the career of Henri Cartier-Bresson--one of the great photographers of the twentieth century.

Michel Frizot

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