The Decisive Moment. Photographs and text by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Afterword by Richard Simon. Simon & Schuster, New York, in collaboration with Editions Verve, Paris, 1952. 158 pp. First edition. Small folio (14.75 x 11 in./37 x 28 cm.) Hardbound. Lacking jacket. 12 pp. caption booklet laid in. Cover illustration by Henri Matisse. 126 black-and-white gravure reproductions.
"The Decisive Moment is one of the greatest of all photobooks."--Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. I.
Excerpt of the DVD published by ICP in 2007:
Fair, a nice reading copy; lacking dust jacket; tightly bound; boards with age-darkening and some staining; (age-darkened) tape repair to back strip; internally clean and complete.
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