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CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri (1908-2004). Images à la sauvette . [The Decisive Moment.] Paris: Verve, 1952. 4° (359 x 270 mm). 126 black and white photographs. (Edges lightly yellowed.) Original pictorial boards with a design after Matisse (spine yellowed, strengthened with clear tape, spine ends worn, extremities lightly rubbed, light soiling). Provenance : Henri Cartier-Bresson (inscription to:) -- Yves Machatschek (born 1934; printer).
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri (1908-2004). Images à la sauvette . [The Decisive Moment.] Paris: Verve, 1952. 4° (359 x 270 mm). 126 black and white photographs. (Edges lightly yellowed.) Original pictorial boards with a design after Matisse (spine yellowed, strengthened with clear tape, spine ends worn, extremities lightly rubbed, light soiling). Provenance : Henri Cartier-Bresson (inscription to:) -- Yves Machatschek (born 1934; printer). FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER TO HIS PRINTER, in French: 'for Yves Machatschek with all my thanks and in friendly remembrance. Henri Cartier-Bresson'. Machatschek had immeasurable influence on how Cartier-Bresson's work was perceived by his audience: he printed all the photographs used for the publication of this book, and printed the photographs for all of Cartier-Bresson's exhibitions at the time, which includes all of his best-known work: The Decisive Moment, The Europeans, Moscow, etc. An important association of 'ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL PHOTOBOOKS' ( The Photobook ). 101 Books , pp.134-35; The Open Book , pp.154-55; The Photobook , vol. I, p.208.