Brussels
Former TitleBrussels
Artist
Henri Cartier-Bresson
(French, 1908 - 2004)
Date1932
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 14 3/16 inches (24.13 × 36.04 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 15/16 inches (30.32 × 40.48 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 15 15/16 inches (30.32 × 40.48 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1113
SignedOn sheet recto, lower left corner, in blindstamp: "© HENRI / CARTIER / BRESSON";
Signed on sheet recto, lower right, in black marker: "Henri Cartier-Bresson"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "P5.003.107.81"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a mustachioed man with his hands behind his back. Another man stands next to him with his nose pressed against a fabric wall.Exhibition HistoryNew Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.
Surveillance. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. September 16, 2016 – January 29, 2017, no cat.One man peeks through a gap in a cloth while another glances furtively to the side. This image was one of the first taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson using a handheld 35 mm camera. Cartier-Bresson excelled at creating images like this, in which the visual and psychological elements of a scene come together in a fleeting "decisive moment." Cartier- Bresson worked intuitively and spontaneously, often recording his subjects undetected, which imparted a charming candor to his works.
Hallmark Cards, Inc. Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson. (The Viking Press, Inc. New York, NY, 1968), 5.
Copyright© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
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