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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The decisive moment / photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Accession number
PML 195650
Creator
Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004.
Published
New York : Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Éditions Verve of Paris, c1952 (France : Draeger)
Credit line
Gift of Frances and Michael Baylson, 2010.
Notes
With introductory text by Cartier-Bresson ; and "A technical report to photographers" by Richard L. Simon.
"This book, with a cover designed and executed especially for it by Henri Matisse, is a selection of 126 photographs..."--Colophon.
"The French edition by Verve (Images à la sauvette) and the American edition ... were conceived and composed by Tériade with the collaboration of Marguerite Lang."--Colophon.
"The engraving and printing is the work of the Master Printers Draeger Frères of Paris."--Colophon.
"Captions" (duplicates of those in text) : [12] p. stapled brochure laid in.
Description
1 v. (unpaged, chiefly plates) : ill. ; 37 cm
Provenance
Frances and Michael Baylson Collection.
Binding
Publisher's decorated boards and dust jacket, designed by Matisse.
Classification
Department