HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (French, 1908 – 2004)
Henri Cartier-Bresson was born in Canteloup, Seine et Marne, France, in 1908. Though he studied painting and literature at university, Cartier-Bresson is known for the photography career he began in 1931. Working in India, Burma, Pakistan, China and Indonesia; the U.S.S.R.; Cuba, Mexico, and Canada; and India and Japan, Cartier-Bresson has an expansive worldview. He received the 1959 Prix de la Société Française de la Photographie and the Overseas Press Club of America Award five times.
Selected Collections:
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada
The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Center for Creative Photography, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ