Ode to Henri Cartier-Bresson 1908-2004. All photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: 

First photo from: National Gallery of Canada

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 Henri Cartier-Bresson. Russian Child, Halle, Germany   1945, printed before 1947 gelatin silver print 16.8 x 24.2 cm Purchased 1984 National Gallery of Canada (no. 28609)

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     The Metropolitan Museum of Art  www.metmuseum.org/toahHenri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004) Shanghai, 1948. Gelatin silver print; 9 13/16 x 14 9/16 in. (25 x 37 cm) Purchase, Evelene and Robert Wechsler Gift and Charina Foundation Inc. Gift, 2002 (2002.419) © Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos

          Quote “In December 1948, Life magazine sent Cartier-Bresson to China to document the turbulent transition from Kuomintang to Communist rule. This photograph captures the pandemonium incited by the currency crash of that month, when the value of paper money plummeted and the Kuomintang decided to distribute forty grams of gold per person. Thousands waited in line for hours as the police made only a token gesture toward maintaining order, resulting in ten deaths by suffocation. Cartier-Bresson deftly captured the desperation and claustrophobia of the scene by compressing the mass of people within a tight frame as they propelled themselves toward the bank building just beyond the right edge of the picture.” Closed-quote. From source as cited

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      Pavement School, Jaipur, 1948Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004)IndiaGelatin silver print; 13 7/16 x 8 7/8 in. (34.2 x 22.6 cm)Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987 (1987.1100.174)© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos

     Quote “The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has traveled throughout the world, working in Africa, China, the United States, Mexico, and all over Europe as a photojournalist on assignment for a number of magazines. He has made five trips to India, during which he captured large, historic moments such as Gandhi’s funeral and the refugee movement caused by partition. This photograph, however, taken at the time of independence, focuses on a small, everyday occurrence: a teacher instructing his students on the streets of Jaipur. The nature of the photograph exemplifies Cartier-Bresson’s dedication to representing human dignity and to working as an unobserved observer, often anonymous in the crowd and using only a simple 35mm camera. The aesthetic of this photograph certainly evolved from his work in press photography, in which each image must tell a story in a single frame.” closed-quote. from source as cited.

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     Valencia, Spain, 1933 Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004)Gelatin silver print; 7 11/16 x 11 1/2 in. (19.6 x 29.2 cm)Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Saul Gift, 2005 (2005.100.164)

     quote “This photograph shows the inside doors of the Valencia arena from the vantage point of the bull; to make this picture of an attendant watching the action from a small rectangular window, Cartier-Bresson entered the ring. The complex composition reflects the influence of Cubism on the artist’s work. All the major structural elements are fragmented: the arena doors are ajar, splitting the concentric rings into arcs and the number 7 into two abstract forms; the foreground figure is, in effect, beheaded by the door, his body linked to a faceless counterpart wearing identical clothing; even the attendant’s circular glasses are awry, one lens catching the light, the other remaining transparent. The picture as a whole illustrates the avant-garde theory of simultaneous multiple vision and is a sophisticated critique of the bull’s-eye school of photographic composition.” from source as cited.

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    LACMA Collections onlinewww.collectionsonline.lacma.orgHenri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Collaborateurs, FrancePhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, Unframed: 6 1/2 x 9 5/8 in. (16.51 x 24.45 cm)Gift of Graham and Susan Nash in honor of the museum’s twenty-fifth anniversary (M.90.75.167)XXXXXXXXXHenri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris, 1932, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, Unframed: 14 x 9 3/4 in. (35.56 x 24.77 cm)Gift of the Sid and Diana Avery Trust (M.82.262.22)

     XXXXXXXXAlicante, 1933, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.56 x 24.13 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.24)XXXXXXXXHenri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Seville, Spain, 1933, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, Unframed: 9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in. (24.13 x 35.88 cm); Sheet: 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 in. (29.85 x 39.69 cm)Gift of the Sid and Diana Avery Trust (M.82.262.21)

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    Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Gestapo informer recognized by a woman she had denounced, 1945, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.13 x 35.56 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.30) 

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     Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Funeral of a Kabuki actor, 1965, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.6 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.33)

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      Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Rue Mouffetard, 1959, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.56 x 24.13 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.38)

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      Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Cafeteria of the Workers’ Building, the Hotel Metropol, 1954, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.13 x 35.56 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.22) 

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      Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Brussels, 1932, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.13 x 35.56 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.21)

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       Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Henri Matisse in his home, 1944, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.13 x 35.56 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.27)

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      Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Sprinager, Kashmir, 1948, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.13 x 35.56 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.31)

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     Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) Simiane-la-Rotonde, 1970, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 9 1/2 x 14 in. (24.13 x 35.56 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.32)

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      Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908 – 2004) At the Coronation Parade of George VI, 1938, printed laterPhotograph, Gelatin-silver print, 14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.56 x 24.13 cm)Gift of anonymous donor, Los Angeles (AC1999.233.25)

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