Cartier-Bresson at MoMA (and Beyond)
June 22, 2010
3 min readIf you live in New York City or will be visiting this week, you have a final few days to get thyself to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to see the retrospective exhibition of works by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. The exhibition, titled Henri Cartier‐Bresson: The Modern Century, includes an astonishing number of prints (300 to be precise) chronicling Cartier-Bresson’s lifetime of influential work as well as his globe-spanning travels.
Cartier-Bresson is well known for his artistic and intimate scenes depicting daily life in the 1930s and 40s in places like Italy, Spain, France and Mexico. In later years he expanded his work to photojournalism, covering poignant events like the reaction in India to Gandhi’s death and momentous historical experiences such as the aftermath of World War II and China’s Great Leap Forward. Cartier-Bresson was also the first Western photographer allowed to enter the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death in 1953.
The exhibition runs through Monday, June 28th. MoMA staff will offer gallery talks on Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. If you can’t make a talk, make sure to pick up one of the complimentary audio guides offered at the entrance to the exhibition.
MoMA is open six days a week, closed Tuesdays. Adult admission costs $20. Student and Senior discounts are available, and admission is free for children age sixteen and under. For more information visit www.moma.org.
If you miss the exhibition in New York, you can catch it later this year and next year in other cities: at Chicago’s Art Institute (July 24-October 3, 2010) (LINK: ); San Francisco’s Museum of Modern Art (October 30, 2010-January 30, 2011) (LINK: ); and Atlanta’s High Museum of Art (February 19-May 15, 2011).
–Emily Chaplin Krug
Photo: Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004), Juvisy, France. 1938. Gelatin silver print, printed 1947, 9 1/8 x 13 11/16″ (23.3 x 34.8 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the photographer © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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