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Henri Cartier-Bresson

♂  French, 1908–2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson has been in 36 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1937 and 1987.

36 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Photography 1839–1937

17 March to 18 April 1937

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Action Photography

18 August to 19 September 1943

László Moholy-Nagy, Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

4 November to 7 December 1943

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography

24 May to 17 September 1944

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Photographs

20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographs of Henri Cartier Bresson

4 February to 6 April 1947

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Monroe Wheeler and Ann Armstrong were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

6 April to 11 July 1948

Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

27 July to 26 September 1948

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Color Photography

9 May to 4 July 1950

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction in Photography

1 May to 4 July 1951

Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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12 Photographers

12 July to 12 August 1951

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Memorable Life Photographs

20 November to 12 December 1951

Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, W. Eugene Smith and Margaret Bourke-White, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Five French Photographers

18 December 1951 to 24 February 1952

Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï (Gyula Halász) and Robert Doisneau, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Postwar European Photography

26 May to 23 August 1953

Edward Steichen, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Bill Brandt, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Family of Man

24 January to 8 May 1955

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits from the Museum Collection

4 May to 18 September 1960

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and William S. Lieberman, among others, were involved.

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Photographs for Collectors

1–16 October 1960

Edward Steichen, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Harry Callahan, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographer's Eye

27 May to 23 August 1964

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photo Essay

16 March to 16 May 1965

John Szarkowski, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange and Irving Penn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition

9 February to 31 March 1968

John Szarkowski, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Paul Strand, among others, were involved.

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Cartier-Bresson

25 June to 2 September 1968

John Szarkowski and Henri Cartier-Bresson were involved.

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Portrait Photographs

9 July to 28 September 1969

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs of Women

7 September to 30 November 1971

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Public Landscapes

11 September to 1 December 1974

Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, were involved.

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Artists by Artists

18 April to 26 June 1977

Henri Matisse, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Still Life

8 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Variants

12 December 1985 to 11 March 1986

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work

10 September to 29 November 1987

Henri Cartier-Bresson and Peter Galassi were involved.