Carnets mexicains 1934-1964
Paris, Hazan, 1995.
1 vol. (215 × 235 mm), 81 pp. and [1] leaf. Publisher’s boards.
First edition. Text by Carlos Fuentes.
Presentation copy inscribed by Henri Cartier-Bresson to Tina Bruce:
“à Tina Bruce, un ami de Jeanine, très cordialement, Henri Cartier”, followed by an arrow pointing to his full printed name on the title page.
Presentation copy inscribed by Henri Cartier-Bresson to Tina Bruce:
“à Tina Bruce, un ami de Jeanine, très cordialement, Henri Cartier”, followed by an arrow pointing to his full printed name on the title page.
Cartier-Bresson first traveled to Mexico in 1934, aged twenty-seven. After the expedition that brought him there collapsed for lack of funds, he remained for more than a year, photographing Mexico City and Juchitán with the Leica he had bought two years earlier. These images of workers, children, prostitutes, craftsmen and street life belong to the formative period of his photographic vision.
Although often associated with his Surrealist period, Cartier-Bresson resisted the label of “Surrealist photography,” while acknowledging that love, freedom, imagination, the unconscious and permanent revolt remained central to his conception of life.
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