Book blurb:

For forty years the great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has sensitively and brilliantly recorded the people and events in the world around him. We have seen his prodigious talent in The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Cartier-Bresson's France. Now, in this unique series of photographs, he gives us a personalized mirror of our times, taking as his theme an especially significant new relationship in the life of modern man: not that of man to nature, or of man to man, the traditional links between the individual and his environment, but that of man to machine. Cartier-Bresson, with the subtlety for which he is famous, reveals this new relationship neither in the formal struggle between the engineer and his electronic or mechanical world, nor in the conscious association of the worker with his tools, but rather in the incidental occurrences of everyday life, a Sunday motorist stuck in a traffic jam in Italy, enthralled children at the Brussels World's Fair, a German factory worker asleep on his bench, a BBC man perched on television studio equipment. A new intellectual and aesthetic understanding of our dynamic, changing environment results from his profound artistry in capturing the fleeting moment, the accident of human expression, the passing look of curiosity, of boredom, discovery, frustration, enthusiasm, faith or happiness...