Mexico City by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Art Institute of Chicago

Mexico City

Henri Cartier-Bresson · 1934

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, "Cartier-Bresson and His Contemporaries," February 12–March 23, 1980.
  • Valencia, Spain, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno Centre Julio Gonzalez, "Modern Photography in Mexico, 1923–1940," January 29–May 17, 1998.
  • 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. p. 21, cat. 35.
  • Sire, Agnes and William Ewing. 2004. "Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs; Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans." Steidl. p. 137

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