Henri Cartier-Bresson "Scrapbook"

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H enri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. After two unsuccessful... more
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Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940. After two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in February 1943. Meanwhile, officials at New York's MoMA, thinking the photographer had disappeared, began planning a "posthumous" exhibition of his work. When he reappeared, he was delighted to learn that this exhibition would still take place. HCB decided to review all his work and to choose himself everything that “fits”. He selected and printed more than 300 often unpublished images, then embarked for New York in April 1946, the prints in his suitcase. Upon his arrival, he bought a large album – a “scrap book” – in which he pasted all his images in order to show them at MoMA. The exhibition was inaugurated on February 4, 1947, just before the creation of Magnum.

In the 1990s, Henri Cartier-Bresson became interested again in his "scrap book" and took off most of the prints to better protect them. The HCB Foundation, now owner of the set, has completed the restoration which now allows the publication of these completely exceptional unpublished images.

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