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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Dessau, Germany, 1945
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in ink and embossed photographer's copyright credit (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 912 x 14 in. (24.1 x 35.5 cm.)
sheet: 12 x 16 (30.4 x 40.6 cm.)
Provenance
From the artist to Picto, Paris;
acquired from the above by Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo, c. 1982;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1952, pl. 34.
Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Image and The World, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003, pl. 79.
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