Cartier-Bresson Retrospective at MoMA this Spring! Awesome!!!

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Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
April 11–June 28, 2010


Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004) is one of the most original, accomplished, influential, and beloved figures in the history of photography. His inventive work of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of modern photography, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book. After World War II (most of which he spent as a prisoner of war) and his first museum show (at MoMA in 1947), he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life while retaining control over their work. In the decade following the war, Cartier-Bresson produced major bodies of photographic reportage on India and Indonesia at the time of independence, China during the revolution, the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death, the United States during the postwar boom, and Europe as its old cultures confronted modern realities. For more than twenty-five years, he was the keenest observer of the global theater of human affairs—and one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century. MoMA’s retrospective, the first in the United States in three decades, surveys Cartier-Bresson’s entire career, with a presentation of about three hundred photographs, mostly arranged thematically and supplemented with periodicals and books. The exhibition travels to The Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
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AWESOME!!!!!
 
Oooooooooo !!
Excellent - I think I'll be in NYC sometime this spring for a few days at least !!

Cheers,
Dave
 
It'd be funny to have a meeting. I don't even live in NY but I'd come for an rff walk through the exhibit! Everybody bring their elmars!
 
As this gets closer on the calendar, -- post details here and more of us RFF's may be able to attend.

I'd be interested in attending as an RFF get-together at Moma. (will be a first for me).
 
Where do you guys find the info on where else this exhibit is going? I'd like to find out if it's coming to Los Angeles / Southern Cal area.
 
PentHassyKon said:
Where do you guys find the info on where else this exhibit is going? I'd like to find out if it's coming to Los Angeles / Southern Cal area.
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It's listed in the show description:
The exhibition travels to The Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
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I've heard some great things about the High Museum in Atlanta. Anyone ever been?
 
I may be looking at end of April beginning of May if you guys are meeting up around that time.

Cheers,
Dave
 
Thanks for posting this.
I actually just went to MoMA for the first time not to long ago.
I will definitely make a trip to NYC to see this.
 
Bnack said:
... and the art institute in Chicago (July 24–October 3, 2010).... good stuff.
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Yeah, its about time AIC has a great photography show! Last summer I went to the SFMOMA and saw the Richard Avedon show and Robert Frank: The Americans in the same day! Those shows never made it to Chicago a shame....
 
semordnilap said:
It's listed in the show description:
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I saw that ....

Was hoping to see something that states when it goes to those particular museums and possibly that there may be other museums it will go to. I looked through the MoMA website and didn't find any other links related to the HCB exhibit.
 
Well, i'll definitely see this when I'm in NYC the third week of May. If there happens to be an RFF meetup at the time, even better.
 
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