Henri Cartier-BressonFrench, 1908–2004Robert Flaherty
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum
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- Accession number
- 255.1985
In the catalog
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- 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 life1943–1944
In the underground: helping escapees and photographing the occupation
In France he worked for the underground, helping other escapees and secretly working with other photographers to cover the occupation and then the liberation of France.
1944
The liberation of Paris and portraits of Matisse and Camus
In 1944 he photographed the liberation of Paris and made portraits of Henri Matisse, Albert Camus, and Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie.
early 1947
Magnum Photos is founded
In early 1947, with Robert Capa, David Seymour, William Vandivert and George Rodger, he founded Magnum — a cooperative picture agency owned by its members; he was assigned India and China, and later also travelled to Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Mexico, Japan, Cuba, Canada and the USSR.
1947
The MoMA retrospective and his first book
His film spurred a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, which opened in 1947 and later toured the country; it was accompanied by his first book, “The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson”, with texts by Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall.
1948
Reporting Gandhi’s funeral
He achieved international recognition for his coverage of Gandhi’s funeral in India in 1948.
1948–1949
China at a turning point: the fall of the Kuomintang
He covered the last stage of the Chinese Civil War — the last six months of the Kuomintang administration and the first six months of the People’s Republic; in Beijing, as the communists liberated it, he photographed the last surviving imperial eunuchs, in Shanghai he often worked with the photojournalist Sam Tata, whom he had befriended in Bombay, and from China he went on to the Dutch East Indies to document independence from the Dutch.
