A Retrospective - Henri Cartier-Bresson 23 December 2005 till 2 April 2006
By many Cartier Bresson as the most important photographer from the twentieth are considered century. In 1931, then still started he, painter, with photograph. In 1935, he chose once and for all the Leica, a picture camera as a result of which he rapidly and inconspicuously could photograph, what was considered then as very renewing. For the war he worked in Mexico and Eastern Europe for its career and made he fotoreportages concerning the Spanish civil war. The photographer put the release of Paris in 1944, exhaustively on the screen. After the war Cartier spent - Bresson a lot of years in India, birma, China, Indonesia and tibet. He aimed magnum Photos in 1947, with Robert Capa the photograph agency at and was in 1954, the first Western photographer who the Sovjet - Union could visit. Cartier Bresson stood confessed as a photographer of ` the decisive moment. Moreover the tentoonstelling lets an overview to see of work and life of the photographer and will reflect what the photographer on those ` moved decisive moments and what influenced him. At the same time with the tentoonstelling in Foam in Maison Descartes drawings and paintings of Henri Cartier-Bresson being will see.
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