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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (French: [kaʁtje bʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film.[1] He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.[2][3]

Henri Cartier-Bresson

(1908-08-22)22 August 1908

3 August 2004(2004-08-03) (aged 95)

Céreste, France

Montjustin, France

  • Photographer
  • painter
(m. 1937; div. 1967)
(m. 1970)

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Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947.[4] In the 1970s, he largely discontinued his photographic work, instead opting to paint.

Later career[edit]

Cartier-Bresson's photography took him to many places, including China, Mexico, Canada, the United States, India, Japan, Portugal and the Soviet Union. While traveling in China in 1958, Cartier-Bresson documented the construction of the Ming Tombs Reservoir.[30] He became the first Western photographer to photograph "freely" in the post-war Soviet Union.


In 1962, on behalf of Vogue, he went to Sardinia for about twenty days. There he visited Nuoro, Oliena, Orgosolo Mamoiada Desulo, Orosei, Cala Gonone, Orani (hosted by his friend Costantino Nivola), San Leonardo di Siete Fuentes, and Cagliari.[31]


Cartier-Bresson withdrew as a principal of Magnum (which still distributes his photographs) in 1966 to concentrate on portraiture and landscapes.


He was also close friends with brothers Alberto Giacometti and Diego Giacometti in Paris.[32]


In 1967, he was divorced from his first wife of 30 years, Ratna (known as "Elie"). In 1968, he began to turn away from photography and return to his passion for drawing and painting. He admitted that perhaps he had said all he could through photography. He married Magnum photographer Martine Franck, thirty years younger than himself, in 1970.[33] The couple had a daughter, Mélanie, in May 1972.


Cartier-Bresson retired from photography in the early 1970s, and by 1975 no longer took pictures other than an occasional private portrait; he said he kept his camera in a safe at his house and rarely took it out. He returned to drawing, mainly using pencil, pen and ink,[34] and to painting. He held his first exhibition of drawings at the Carlton Gallery in New York in 1975.

1947: The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Text by Lincoln Kirstein. New York: .

Museum of Modern Art

Steidl

1954: Les Danses à Bali. Texts by on Balinese theater and commentary by Béryl de Zoete Paris: Delpire. German edition.

Antonin Artaud

1955: The Europeans. Text and photographs by Cartier-Bresson. Cover by . New York: Simon & Schuster. French edition.

Joan Miró

1955: People of Moscow. London: . French, German and Italian editions.

Thames & Hudson

1956: China in Transition. London: Thames & Hudson. French, German and Italian editions.

1958: Henri Cartier-Bresson: Fotografie. Prague and Bratislava: Statni nakladatelstvi krasné. Text by .

Anna Farova

1963: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York: . French, English, Japanese and Swiss editions.

Grossman Publisher

1964: China. Photographs and notes on fifteen months spent in China. Text by Barbara Miller. New York: . French edition.

Bantam

1966: Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art. Text by . Translated from the French L'Art sans art d'Henri Cartier-Bresson by Ruth Taylor. New York: Bulfinch Press.

Jean-Pierre Montier

1968: The World of HCB. New York: . French, German and Swiss editions. ISBN 978-0670786640

Viking Press

1969: Man and Machine. Commissioned by . French, German, Italian and Spanish editions.

IBM

1970: France. Text by François Nourissier. London: Thames & Hudson. French and German editions.

1972: The Face of Asia. Introduction by . New York and Tokyo: John Weatherhill; Hong Kong: Orientations. French edition.

Robert Shaplen

1973: About Russia. London: Thames & Hudson. French, German and Swiss editions.

1976: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Texts by Cartier-Bresson. History of Photography Series. History of Photography Series. French, German, Italian, Japanese and Italian editions.

1979: Henri Cartier-Bresson Photographer. Text by . New York: Bulfinch. French, English, German, Japanese and Italian editions. ISBN 978-0821207567

Yves Bonnefoy

1983: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Ritratti = Henri Cartier-Bresson. Portraits. Texts by and Ferdinando Scianna, "I Grandi Fotografi". Milan: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri. English and Spanish editions.

André Pieyre de Mandiargues

Satyajit Ray

Peter Galassi

Robert Guillain

Gilles Mora

Véra Feyder

1996: L'Imaginaire d'après nature. Text by Cartier-Bresson. Paris: Fata Morgana. German and English editions'

1997: Europeans. Texts by Jean Clair. London: Thames & Hudson. French, German, Italian and Portuguese editions.

1998: Tête à tête. Texts by . London: Thames & Hudson. French, German, Italian and Portuguese editions.

Ernst H. Gombrich

1999: The Mind's Eye. Text by Cartier-Bresson. New York: . French and German editions.

Aperture

1999: Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography. Text by Pierre Assouline, translated by David Wilson. London: Thames and Hudson.

2001: Landscape Townscape. Texts by and Gérard Macé. London: Thames & Hudson. French, German and Italian editions.

Erik Orsenna

2003: The Man, the Image and the World. Texts by , Jean Clair, Claude Cookman, Robert Delpire, Jean Leymarie, Jean-Noel Jeanneney and Serge Toubiana. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003. German, French, Korean, Italian and Spanish editions.

Philippe Arbaizar

ISBN

2006: An Inner SIlence: The portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson, New York: Thames & Hudson. Texts by and Jean-Luc Nancy.

Agnès Sire

2010: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Reprint edition.  978-0870707780

ISBN

2015: Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Decisive Moment, Steidl; Pck Slp Ha edition.  978-3869307886

ISBN

2017: Henri Cartier-Bresson Fotógrafo. Delpire.

Filmography[edit]

Films directed by Cartier-Bresson[edit]

Cartier-Bresson was second assistant director to Jean Renoir in 1936 for La vie est à nous and Une partie de campagne, and in 1939 for La Règle du Jeu.

1933 Cercle Ateneo, Madrid

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1933 Julien Levy Gallery, New York

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1934 , Mexico City (with Manuel Alvarez Bravo)[51]

Palacio de Bellas Artes

1947 , New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Rome, Italy; Dean Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile[52]

Museum of Modern Art

1952 , London

Institute of Contemporary Arts

1955 Retrospektive – Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris

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1956 , Cologne, Germany

Photokina

1963 Photokina, Cologne, Germany

1964 The Phillips Collection, Washington

1965–1967 2nd retrospective, Tokyo, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, New York, London, Amsterdam, Rome, Zurich, Cologne and other cities.

1970 En France – Grand Palais, Paris. Later in the US, USSR, Australia and Japan

1971 Les Rencontres d'Arles festival. Movies screened at Théatre Antique.

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1972 Les Rencontres d'Arles festival. "Flagrant Délit " (Production Delpire) screened at Théatre Antique.

1974 Exhibition about the USSR, , New York[55]

International Center of Photography

1974–1997 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

1975 Carlton Gallery, New York

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1975 Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1980 Brooklyn Museum, New York

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1980 Photographs, Art Institute of Chicago

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1980 Portraits – Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva, Switzerland

1981 Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

1982 Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson – Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

1983 Printemps Ginza – Tokyo

1984 Osaka University of Arts, Japan

1984–1985 Paris à vue d’œil – Musée Carnavalet, Paris

1985 Henri Cartier-Bresson en Inde – Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

1985 Museo de Arte Moderno de México, Mexico

1986 L'Institut Français de Stockholm

1986 Pavillon d'Arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy

1986 Tor Vergata University, Rome, Italy

1987 , UK (drawings and photography)

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1987 Early Photographs – Museum of Modern Art, New York

1988 Institut Français, Athen, Greece

1988 Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria

1988 Salzburger Landessammlung, Austria

1988 Group exhibition: "Magnum en Chine" at , France.

Rencontres d'Arles

1989 Chapelle de l'École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

1989 , Martigny, Switzerland (drawings and photographs)

Fondation Pierre Gianadda

1989 Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany (drawings and photography)

1989 Printemps Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

1990 Galerie Arnold Herstand, New York

1991 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (drawings and photographs)

1992 Centro de Exposiciones, Saragossa and Logrono, Spain

1992 Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson – International Center of Photography, New York

1992 L'Amérique – FNAC, Paris

1992 Musée de Noyers-sur-Serein, France

1992 Palazzo San Vitale, Parma, Italy

1993 Photo Dessin – Dessin Photo, Arles, France

1994 "Henri Cartier-Bresson, point d'interrogation" by Sarah Moon screened at Rencontres d'Arles festival, France.

1994 Dessins et premières photos – La Caridad, Barcelona, Spain

1995 Dessins et Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson – CRAC (Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain) Valence, Drome, France

1996 Henri Cartier-Bresson: Pen, Brush and Cameras – The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, US

1997 Les Européens – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

1997 Henri Cartier-Bresson, dessins – Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal

1998 Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

1998 Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1998 Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1998 Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

1998 Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

1998 Line by Line – Royal College of Art, London

1998 Tête à Tête – National Portrait Gallery, London

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1998–1999 Photographien und Zeichnungen – Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2003–2005 Rétrospective, , Paris;[60] La Caixa, Barcelona; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, Rome; Dean Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Bibliothèque nationale de France

2004 Baukunst Galerie, Cologne

2004 Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2004 Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2008 Henri Cartier-Bresson's Scrapbook Photographs 1932–46, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK

2008 National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai, India

2008 Santa Catalina Castle, Cadiz, Spain

2009 Musée de l'Art Moderne, Paris

2010 Museum of Modern Art, New York

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2010 The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

2011 [62]

Museum of Design Zürich

2011 , Atlanta, GA

High Museum of Art

2011 , Toulon, France

Maison de la Photo

2011 , Germany

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

2011 , Brisbane, Australia

Queensland Art Gallery

2011-2012 , Vienna, Austria

KunstHausWien

2014 , Paris.[63]

Centre Georges Pompidou

2015 , Mexico City[64]

Palacio de Bellas Artes

2015 , Helsinki

Ateneum

2017 Leica Gallery, San Francisco.

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2017 Museo Botero/Banco de la Republica, Bogota Colombia

2018 International Center of Photography, New York

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2021 Le Grand jeu, , Paris, France[67]

Bibliothèque Nationale de France

2022 Cina 1948-49/1958, MUDEC, Milan, Italy

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2022 L'expérience du paysage, , Paris, France

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France

De Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, US

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Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France

University of Fine Arts, Osaka, Japan

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London, United Kingdom[71]

Victoria and Albert Museum

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France

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Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France

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Museum of Modern Art, New York City

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Illinois, US[75]

The Art Institute of Chicago

Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

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Los Angeles[76]

J. Paul Getty Museum

Institute for Contemporary Photography, New York City

The Philadelphia Art Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US

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Kahitsukan Kyoto Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv, Israel

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Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

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St.Louis, Missouri[79]

International Photography Hall of Fame

Cartier-Bresson's work is held in the following public collections:

1948: of America Award[80]

Overseas Press Club

1953: The A.S.M.P. Award

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1954: Overseas Press Club of America Award

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1959: The Prix de la [83]

Société française de photographie

1960: Overseas Press Club of America Award

1964: Honorary Fellowship of the [84]

Royal Photographic Society

1964: Overseas Press Club of America Award

1967: The Cultural Award from the (DGPh), with Edwin H. Land[85]

German Society for Photography

1981: Grand Prix National de la Photographie

1982: [86]

Hasselblad Award

2003: Lifetime Achievement Award from the [87]

Lucie Awards

2006: for the photobook Henri Cartier-Bresson: Scrapbook[88]

Prix Nadar

Assouline, P. (2005). Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Biography. London: Thames & Hudson.

Galassi, Peter (2010). Henri Cartier-Bresson: the Modern Century. London: .

Thames & Hudson

Montier, J. (1996). Portrait: First Sketch. Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (p. 12). New York: Bulfinch Press.

Warren, J (2005), Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography. Routledge

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

at Magnum Photos

Cartier-Bresson's portfolio

Magnum Photos

– by Eamonn McCabe in The Guardian

Special Report: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)

Tête à Tête: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004): When photography becomes art

"", in The Observer.

John Berger pays tribute to his good friend

Henri Cartier-Bresson's Cats

The Divisive Moment: After 70 years, Henri Cartier-Bresson almost goes back to China