Henri Cartier-Bresson
June 28–September 7, 2014
Press conference: Thursday, June 26, noon
FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE
Recoletos Exhibition Hall
Paseo De Recoletos, 23
28004
Madrid
Spain
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His genius for composition, extraordinary visual intuition and ability to capture the most elusive and significant instants as they happened made Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Throughout a career spent crisscrossing the world, turning his gaze on the great moments of history, he mingled poetry with a powerful sense of testimony.
His work falls into three main periods. During the first, from 1926 to 1935, Cartier-Bresson fraternised with the Surrealists, began working as a photographer and went on his first major trips. The second, from 1936 to 1946, was marked by his political commitment, his work for the Communist press and his experience in films. The third, 1947 to 1970, covered the creation of the cooperative Magnum Photos to the time when he stopped doing photo reports.
This retrospective exhibition of the photographer known as “eye of his time” retraces his career chronologically throughout the selection of vintage prints. It presents his most iconic works as well as the unknown ones. It aims to give a new focus on his career going beyond the idea of the “decisive moment” that until now has been the key to understand his work. It reveals us that there was not just one but several Cartier-Bressons.
The exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE, Madrid with the participation of Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
