Looking at fifty years (1930 - 1980) of what America looks
like through the lens of photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
And a telling look it is. As editor Gilles Mora remarks in
his introduction, "I sensed a period whose measure he had
taken more fully than he could have realized or intended..."
The stolen imprints of ninety-nine moments in our national
book of days are returned to us with this volume. The book's
simple styling presents these straightforward, unsentimental
photographs at their unfettered best.
