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Henri Cartier-Bresson : the early work
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Henri Cartier-Bresson : the early work

by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Galassi

This volume compiles documentary photographs capturing people and places across Europe during the 1930s and 1940s, depicting moments of both beauty and social turmoil.

Accession 17792 ISBN 0870702610 Publisher Museum of Modern Art
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