Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century — at MoMA
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Martine’s Legs, 1968 by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century is on exhibit at the MoMA through June 28th. If you are in NYC, you must see it. Not only does the exhibition have beautiful vintage prints of familiar “decisive moment” images, but it includes Cartier-Bresson’s photo essays of China, the US and the USSR. These groups of photographs hang above display cases that contain the magazines in which the photographs originally appeared. The Modern Century blends the old worlds and new worlds of Cartier-Bresson’s career — both of which are windows into worlds that no longer exist. A few of my favorite photographs are included here…