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(CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI). Cartier-Bresson, Henri & Clement Cheroux. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2014. First Edition Thus. Folio. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160 + 48pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. Cover Design by Henri Matisse. "The Decisive Moment" is one of the most famous books in the history of photography. Published in 1952 by Simon and Schuster, New York in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, it was an oversized folio that assembled Cartier-Bresson's best work from his early years adorned with a cut out paper collage cover by Henri Matisse especially designed for the book. "The Decisive Moment" and its images have since influenced generations of photographers. Its English title has defined the notion of the famous formal peak in which all elements in the photographic frame accumulate to form the perfect image. Paired with the artist's humanist viewpoint, Cartier-Bresson's photography has become part of the world's collective memory. This new Steidl edition is a meticulous facsimile of the original book accompanied by an additional booklet containing an essay on the history of "The Decisive Moment" by Centre Pompidou curator Clement Cheroux entitled "A Bible for Photographers". A brand new, most handsome example of the quickly unavailable 2014 first printing of this lavish updating of Cartier-Bresson's timeless classic (whose original 1952 edition is cited on pages 208-209 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 154-155 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", pages 134-135 of "The Book of 101 Books", and pages 24-27 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné"). 3-86930-788-9 Inventory Number: 026526