Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Other Coronation.
Textual/Henri-Cartier Bresson Foundation.| N° d'inventaire | 26566 |
| Format | 23 x 31.5 |
| Détails | 113 p., illustrated, publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782845979604 |
This book accompanies the exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson: the other coronation presented from May 5 to September 3, 2023 at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.
The coronation of King George VI, on May 12, 1937 in London, was one of the most publicized events of the interwar period. While most of the reporters present sought to photograph the moment of the coronation, the passage of the carriage or the appearance of the royal family on the balcony, Henri Cartier-Bresson, recently employed by the communist newspaper This evening , he prefers to photograph the people watching the new monarch pass by. Of the day's solemnities, he only remembers the spectacle of the crowd of onlookers gathered along the path of the procession – astonishing onlookers with stretched necks, equipped with strange devices to increase their vision: pocket mirror, cardboard periscope, rearview mirror fixed to the end of a pole. There are several inversions in this play of points of view: that of the photographer who turns his back on the king to photograph the people and that of the spectators turning around to better observe the sovereign. By thus turning the gaze, Henri Cartier-Bresson imagines the reversal of power.
This book accompanies the exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson: the other coronation presented from May 5 to September 3, 2023 at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation.
The coronation of King George VI, on May 12, 1937 in London, was one of the most publicized events of the interwar period. While most of the reporters present sought to photograph the moment of the coronation, the passage of the carriage or the appearance of the royal family on the balcony, Henri Cartier-Bresson, recently employed by the communist newspaper This evening , he prefers to photograph the people watching the new monarch pass by. Of the day's solemnities, he only remembers the spectacle of the crowd of onlookers gathered along the path of the procession – astonishing onlookers with stretched necks, equipped with strange devices to increase their vision: pocket mirror, cardboard periscope, rearview mirror fixed to the end of a pole. There are several inversions in this play of points of view: that of the photographer who turns his back on the king to photograph the people and that of the spectators turning around to better observe the sovereign. By thus turning the gaze, Henri Cartier-Bresson imagines the reversal of power.