[Rarebooks] FS: Photography books -- Cartier-Bresson and Helmer-Petersen

[Copperfish Books, LLC]

Greetings! We are pleased to offer the following new acquisitions, postpaid via media mail:

The Decisive Moment
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. Simon and Schuster, 1952, in collaboration with Editions Verve of Paris. First American edition. Caption booklet laid in. Illustrated with 126 full-page gravure reproductions of Cartier-Bresson's captivating photographs. Pictorial binding designed by Henri Matisse. $475

Spine is tanned and splitting, with a four-inch split at the top back outer joint and a one-inch split at the bottom, same joint. Spine end are bumped and have small tears. Boards are lightly bowed, with soiling, spotting and rubbed edges. Foxing to endpapers and page edges, not affecting illustrations. Caption booklet also foxed. Lacks dust jacket.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson is considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" or "real life reportage" style that has influenced photographers who followed. (Information from Wikipedia). The Decisive Moment (published simultaneously in French as Images à la sauvette) is his second and most famous book.

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122 Farvefotografier / 122 Colour Photographs
Helmer-Petersen, Keld. First edition folio hardcover, self published in 1948, in Copenhagen. Helmer-Petersen’s first book, a portfolio of 122 of his photographs, in color. Dual language text in Danish and English. $400

Original paper boards are lightly bumped, with a small amount of exposure to the corners and tanning to the edges. There are a few tiny spots of foxing. The spine is darkened, bumped at the head and tail. Binding is sound. Child’s scribbling with color pencil on the endpapers. Two similar but smaller markings were more easily erased from the white margin areas of two glossy interior pages (the copyright page and one photo page, not affecting photo illustration). Lacks dust jacket.

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Helmer-Petersen, a pioneer modernist with a bent toward abstraction and minimalism, was largely self-taught. He has worked in both black and white and color formats, and gained international attention when he began receiving regular assignments for Life magazine in 1949. Helmer-Petersen was a pioneer in his field. Color photography became a more artistically viable medium around the early 1970s, with the emergence of such photographers as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. But Helmer-Petersen prefigured their work 20 years prior, hence the importance of this book.

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