‘The pictures in this book have been superbly reproduced… the apogee of the album book’ – The British Journal of Photography

'Photography is nothing, it's life that interests me' – Henri Cartier-Bresson

This is a unique gallery of urban landscapes rendered by a great sensibility
– Cartier-Bresson's homage to the place perhaps closest to his heart.

Paris - the city and its people - has pervaded Cartier-Bresson's work ever since he first exchanged his paintbrushes for a camera.

À Propos de Paris presents the photographer's own selection of more than 130 of his best photographs of Paris, taken over 50 years. As ever, his vision transforms photojoumalism into high art, revealing images of Paris with a rare, dreamlike, almost crystalline clarity.

He unfolds before our eyes a view far beyond the cliches of tourism and popular myth. Accompanying texts by Vera Feyder and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues discuss the history of Cartier-Bresson's engagement with the city and its place in his achievement.

Vera Feyder was awarded the Prix Rossel for her novel La Derelitta.
Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues was awarded the Prix des Critiques in 1951 for the short story collection Soleil des Loups. His novel La Marge won the Prix Goncourt in 1967.

Also of interest
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Landscape/Townscape
Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Paris Between the Wars: Art, Style and Glamour in the Crazy Years