Henri-Cartier Bresson, at 86, is the old master of European photography. Paris-the city and its people-has pervaded his work ever since he first exchanged his paintbrushes for a camera, influence by the Surrealist movement of the late 1920s. A Propos de Paris presents the photographer's personal selection of more than 130 of his best photographs of Paris, taken over 50 years. As ever, his vision transforms photojournalism into high art, revealing images of Paris with a rare, dreamlike, almost cr…
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