Italy by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Art Institute of Chicago

Italy

Henri Cartier-Bresson · 1933

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)
  • 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.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Brassai and Company," January 24-May 17, 1998. (David Travis)
  • New York, New York, The Equitable Gallery, "Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery," August 13–October 31, 1998.
  • 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, "Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris," September 20, 2008–January 4, 2009. (David Travis)

Literature

Published references

  • Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago. p. 3, cat. 34.
  • 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. 304, cat. 249.
  • Sire, Agnes and William Ewing. 2004. "Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs; Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans." Steidl. p. 111.
  • Cheroux, Clement. 2013. "Henri Cartier-Bresson." Exh. cat. Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou. p. 120, cat. 95.

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