Henri Cartier-Bresson - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Laurence Miller Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, 10 December 2013 – 8 June 2014
    American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 30 October 2014 – 22 March 2015

  • Literature

    NSU Art Museum, American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, exhibition catalogue, p. 64

  • Artist Biography

    Henri Cartier-Bresson

    French • 1908 - 2004

    Candidly capturing fleeting moments of beauty among the seemingly ordinary happenings of daily life, Henri Cartier-Bresson's work is intuitive and observational. Initially influenced by the Surrealists' "aimless walks of discovery," he began shooting on his Leica while traveling through Europe in 1932, revealing the hidden drama and idiosyncrasy in the everyday and mundane. The hand-held Leica allowed him ease of movement while attracting minimal notice as he wandered in foreign lands, taking images that matched his bohemian spontaneity with his painterly sense of composition.

    Cartier-Bresson did not plan or arrange his photographs. His practice was to release the shutter at the moment his instincts told him the scene before him was in perfect balance. This he later famously titled "the decisive moment" — a concept that would influence photographers throughout the twentieth century. 

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Long Distance Haul, Raleigh, North Carolina

circa 1955
Gelatin silver print.
9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (24.8 x 17.1 cm)
Magnum credit, reproduction limitation, and agency stamps on the verso.

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for $7,620

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024