Hardcover with dust jacket, text by Cartier-Bresson, afterword by Richard L. Simon. Printed white paper-covered boards illustrated after a design by Matisse in black, blue and green; (12 page caption booklet missing).

First American edition, issued simultaneously with the French.

"To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression… if the shutter was released at the decisive moment, you have instinctively fixed a geometric pattern without which the photograph would have been both formless and lifeless." (from the preface by Cartier-Bresson)

Pages: 164
Place: New York
Year: 1952
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Size: 28 x 37 cm (approx.)

Included in "The Photobook: A History Volume I" by Parr/Badger
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