Henri Cartier-BressonFrench, 1908–2004Cardinal Pacelli
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New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1982.2008
In the catalog
Sources
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Henri Cartier-Bresson
The whole life1930s
Restless photography across Europe
Restless, he photographed in Berlin, Brussels, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest and Madrid; at first he photographed little in his native France — it would be years before he shot there extensively.
1936–1939
Assistant and actor to Jean Renoir
On returning to France he applied for a job with the director Jean Renoir: he acted in “A Day in the Country” (1936) and in “The Rules of the Game” (1939), on which he was second assistant and played a butler, and in 1936 helped Renoir make “Life Belongs to Us”; Renoir made him act so that he would know how it felt to be on the other side of the camera.
1937
Married: Ratna Mohini
1937
George VI’s coronation: the crowd, not the king
His first published photojournalism appeared in 1937 in the weekly Regards: he covered the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth but photographed not the king but his adoring subjects lining the London streets; the credit read “Cartier”, as he hesitated to use his full family name.
19 June 1937 – 12 September 1937
Took part in: foto '37
June 1940
Captured at Saint-Dié
In June 1940, during the Battle of France, he was captured by German soldiers at St. Dié in the Vosges Mountains and spent 35 months in prisoner-of-war camps doing forced labour.
