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art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
Deutzer Freiheit 107
50679 Köln
Germany
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Phone: +49 221 800 80 80
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About us
art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Cartier-Bresson – Puzzle
| Publisher | Fondation HCB |
| Cover | puzzle |
| Language | French, English |
| Note | 1000 pieces |
| Weight | 558 g |
| More | |
| Article ID | art-64406 |
In 1948, when he had just founded the Magnum Photos agency with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger, Henri Cartier‑Bresson is in Beijing when the capital is about to be rallied by communist troops. A few months earlier, while he was in Indonesia, the famous Life Magazine asked him to go to China as soon as possible to cover the events. This assignement was to be a determining factor in his career as a photojournalist, which was only just beginning.
When the reportage – entitled “A last look at Peiping” – appeared on January 3, 1949, this photograph, taken in the “Forbidden City”, was selected for the front page of the publication.
