Emma Henri Cartier-Bresson retrospective at The Bucerius Kunst Forum
The Bucerius Kunst Forum is dedicating the first major retrospective in Germany to the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Divided into several chapters, the exhibition presents Cartier-Bresson’s portraits of well-known artists and writers alongside his early, Surrealism-influenced photographs and films, as well as his later observations of everyday human behaviour.
With 230 black-and-white photographs as well as articles from magazines and books, the show covers Cartier-Bresson’s life work, which spanned almost the entire twentieth century.
A co-founder of the Magnum photo agency, Cartier-Bresson was one of the century’s most famous photographers, he created timeless compositions that would shape the style of generations of photographers to come.
States, 1957, © 2024 Fondation Henri CartierBresson / Magnum Photos
The exhibition presents as examples his photos of the coronation of the British King George VI in London in 1937, the liberation of Paris in 1944, Germany after the end of the war in 1945, the funeral of Gandhi in 1948, the end of Kuomintang rule in China in 1948, Russia after the death of Stalin in 1954, Cuba after the missile crisis in 1963 and the long-term studies he made in France.
George VI, London, Great Britain, 12 May 1937,
© 2024 Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson /
Magnum Photos
Where
Bucerius Kunst Forum, Alter Wall 12, 20457 Hamburg
When
15th June until 22nd September 2024
