Art Institute of Chicago

La Villette, Paris

Henri Cartier-Bresson · 1929, printed 1930/39

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

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 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, "Brassai and Company," January 24-May 17, 1998. (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, "Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was," August 13–November 6, 2005. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, "Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris," September 20, 2008–January 4, 2009. (David Travis)
New York, New York, 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.
Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, "Encounters with the 1930s," October 2, 2012-January 7, 2013.

Literature

Westerbeck, Colin and Joel Meyerowitz. 1994. "Bystander: A History of Street Photography." Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. p. 164, fig. 8.5.
Travis, David. 2005. "Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was." Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 63.
Cheroux, Clement. 2013. "Henri Cartier-Bresson." Exh. cat. Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou. p. 155, cat. 108.

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