Known worldwide as a photographer of great power, with a magical gift for capturing the essence of a situation, Henri Cartier Bresson is less well known as a painter and a draughtsman. This first ever volume of his drawings is a revelation. The extraordinary probing eye, the qualities of concentration and patience, we have come to expect from his photographs, but here we discover that he is also a very fine draughtsman. Landscapes, nude studies and a remarkable sequence of drawings of giant animal skeletons from the Museum of Natural History are bought vividly to life in these pages.

‘My camera’, says Cartier Bresson, ‘has always been for me a sketch-book, a book of instant drawings.’ Here we can see the versatility of the artist returning to a medium he has always loved.

Also of interest
Henry Cartier-Bresson: A Biography