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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Artist's Name: Henri Cartier-Bresson
Preferred medium: photography
birth year: 1908
Nationality: FR
City: Paris

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Henri Cartier-Bresson - Profile

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the legendary photojournalist whose work was characterized by the term “the decisive moment,” began his career as a painter influenced by the Surrealist poets who were a mainstay of Parisian café culture in the 1920s. Although his subsequent work in photography was concerned primarily with time and timing, it also reveals an appreciation for the irrational and subconscious gleaned from the work of writers and poets of this time. Pulling from the Art Institute’s Julian Levy Collection—the legendary gallery director who assembled the first exhibition of Cartier-Bresson’s photographs in the United States—this exhibition provides a rare glimpse into the early stages of Cartier-Bresson’s career. Work by his painting instructor André Lhote parallels Cartier-Bresson’s early photographs, as does that of Salvador Dalí. Also included will be work by Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso that relates to photographs by Brassaï, André Kertész, and other photographers active in Paris between the World Wars. (Art Institute Chicago)

important exhibitions from Henri Cartier-Bresson

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Henri Cartier-Bresson A Retrospective MoMA - Museum of Modern Art New York US 11.04.2010
Henri Cartier-Bresson. Die Geometrie des Augenblicks Landschaften Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Wolfsburg DE 03.09.2011
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA San Francisco US 30.10.2010
Henri Cartier-Bresson Museum Ludwig Köln DE 22.08.2004
Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Retrospective The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago US 24.07.2010
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Indien - Amerika - Russland KunstHaus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser Wien AT 16.11.2011
Henri Cartier-Bresson Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich Zürich CH 08.04.2011
Henri Cartier-Bresson Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris FR 19.06.2009
Retrospective de Henri Cartier-Bresson The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Tokyo JP 19.06.2007
Henri Cartier-Bresson und Alberto Giacometti Die Entscheidung des Auges in Zusammenarbeit mit Henri Cartier-Bresson und der Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich CH 13.05.2005

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Galleries representing
Henri Cartier-Bresson:

ArteF, Zürich
Baukunst Galerie
Bonni Benrubi Gallery
Contessa Gallery
Françoise Paviot Gallery
Galerie Beyeler
Galerie Claude Bernard
Galerie Löhrl
Howard Greenberg
Johannes Faber
Kicken Galerie
Sakshi gallery - synergy art foundation ltd.
Staley-Wise Gallery
Stephen Daiter Gallery

Collections representing
Henri Cartier-Bresson

BnF Site Richelieu
Boca Raton Museum of Art
Center for Creative Photography
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie
Fotomuseum Winterthur
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais
George Eastman House
Haggerty Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
Kunsthallen Brandts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
Max Ernst Museum Brühl
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Moderna Museet
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
National Gallery of Canada
National Museum of Photography Kopenhagen
Palmer Museum of Art
Photographische Sammlung Köln SK Stiftung Kultur
Photology
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Tate Modern
Tate St. Ives
University of Iowa Museum of Art