Henri Cartier-Bresson

Acquired from the photographer

Robert Delpire, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 20

Van Deren Coke and Diana C. Dupont, Photography: A Facet of Modernism, Photographs from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986), pl. 24

Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), pp. 41 and 127

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 236

Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 135

Ann Thomas, Modernist Photograph from the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2007), p. 61

Peter Galassi, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p. 89

Clément Chéroux, Henri Cartier-Bresson, (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2014), p. 79

Matthieu Humery et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2020), pp. 133 and 259

‘To take photographs is to hold one’s breath when all faculties converge in the face of the fleeing reality. It is at that moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.’

- Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers (New York: Aperture, 1999), p. 16