Alicante, Spain by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Art Institute of Chicago

Alicante, Spain

Henri Cartier-Bresson · 1933, printed 1930/39

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Photographers from the Permanent Collection," February 14-June 10, 1984.
  • Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.
  • Berlin, Germany, Berlinishe Galerie, "Sprung in die Zeit," November 20, 1992–January 17, 1993.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Bystander: A History of Street Photography," December 10, 1994-April 16, 1995; traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art, January 16-April 4, 1999.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Hot Streaks," February 21–May 2, 2004. (David Travis)
  • Paris, France, Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation "Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans and Manuel Alvarez-Bravo," September 7–December 22, 2004; traveled to Switzerland, Musee de L'Elysee, February 10–April 10, 2005.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Far from Home: Photography, Travel, and Inspiration," January 20–May 6, 2007. (Elizabeth Siegel and Newell G. Smith)
  • New York, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century," April 11–June 28, 2010; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, July 24–October 3, 2010; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 30, 2010–January 30, 2011; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 19–May 15, 2011. (Chicago only)
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media rotation, Gallery 10, October 6, 2020-June 13, 2021.

Literature

Published references

  • Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago. p. 21, cat. 31.
  • Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 305, cat. 250.
  • Phillips, Sandra S., David Travis, and Weston J. Naef. 1985. “André Kertész: Of Paris and New York.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Metropolitan Museum of Art/Thames and Hudson. p. 86, fig. 38.
  • Sire, Agnes and William Ewing. 2004. "Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs; Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans." Steidl. p. 109.

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