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HENRI CARTIER–BRESSON (1908–2004)
Srinagar, Kashmir, India, 1948
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in ink and embossed photographer's copyright credit (margin)
image: 912 x 14 in. (24 x 35.5 cm.)
sheet: 12 x 1534 in. (30.4 x 40 cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Viking Press, New York, 1968, pl. 162.
Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Aperture History of Photography, Book 1, Aperture, New York, 1976, p. 67.
Yves Bonnefoy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, New York Graphic Society, Boston, 1979, pl. 177.
William Manchester et al., In Our Time: The World as Seen by Magnum Photographers, The American Federation of Arts W. W. Norton and Co., 1989, pp. 402-403.
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1996, p. 249, pl. 247.
Philippe Arabaizar, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image & the World: a Retrospective, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003, p. 278, pl. 407.
Exhibition Catalogue, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, Thames & Hudson, London, 2010, p. 120.
Exhibition Catalogue, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now, Thames & Hudson, London, 2014, p. 337, pl. 382.
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