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Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photoportraits

A compelling selection of photo portraits capturing icons of the twentieth-century including Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, and Jean-Paul Sartre

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. 1964. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits Writer, Truman Capote. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1947. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits British painter, Francis Bacon. 1971. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits French writer Albert Camus. Paris, France. 1944. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits The British playwright Harold Pinter.1971. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits The photographer Martine Franck. 1985. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits French writer, Jean Paulhan. Paris, France. 1946. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits French writer and semiologist Roland Barthes. Paris, France. 1963. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits Coco Chanel. Paris, France. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits French writer, André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Italian painter, Leonor Fini. Trieste, Italy. 1933. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits Writer, Edmund Wilson. New York City, USA. 1963. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits French writer, Simone de Beauvoir. Paris, France. 1947. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits Writer, William Faulkner at home.

Oxford, Mississipi, USA. 1947. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits British sculptor, Barbara Hepworth. 1971. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits French Communist deputy Mara Lucas (Marie-Claude Vogel-Vaillant- Couturier). 1945. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits French writer and philosopher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Pont des Arts, Paris, France.1946. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits Malcolm X. USA. 1961. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Photoportraits An interview with Gandhi the day before his assassination. Birla House, Delhi, India.1948. © Henri Cartier-Bresson | Magnum Photos
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