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EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR

The Photographs of Henri Cartier Bresson

4 February to 6 April 1947

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MoMA Staff

Director
Monroe Wheeler  American, 1899–1988
Assistant Curator

Artists

Henri Cartier-Bresson
French, 1908–2004
36 exhibitions

New York Times Review of the exhibition

PUBLISHED

2 February 1947

Artist With a Camera; Henri Cartier-Bresson portrays, in the faces of the world's peoples, a history of our time.

By Lincoln KIRSTEIN

THE photographs of Henri CartierBresson, which go on exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art this Tuesday, have a triple interest. Primarily, they are pictures of human incidents caught during a historical epoch (roughly the last decade), which are so intensely observed and masterfully photographed that they can serve among the chief pictorial symbols of their time.

New York Times • page SM12 • 691 words