French born Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004) is one of the most familiar names in the history of photography. His work has been enormously influential on generations of photographers. He is particularly renowned for the purity of his methods, capturing his subjects at the point during which all the elements of a scene would come together in a meaningful way. Between 1932 -1946 he documented both his extensive travels and his encounters with Surrealism and modern art, creating some of his best and most enduring photographs. For further details please download a biography (PDF 0.9mb).
The Scrapbook
A simple scrapbook containing small photographs, printed and mounted by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1946, has become one of the most important photographic artefacts of the 20th century. It was Cartier-Bresson's exhibition proposal that resulted in his seminal solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, in 1947.
Following his 1947 exhibition, Cartier-Bresson stored the scrapbook in his studio in Paris. In the 1990s, he carefully began to remove most of the prints he had painstakingly printed in 1945-46. A few original, fragile pages remained and are shown in the exhibition alongside reproductions of their reverse side and the original scrapbook cover.
Une Ford Pick-up, une Pan/Shovel 66, une Custom 2004 (Jeffrey), une Triumph 69 (Vince), une El Camino 64, une Bel Air 65 (peinte par Vince), une Duo Glide 62, une Comet (qui appartenait à Steve Mc Queen), une Special Construction 2000 (toutes, OM), une Harley 1969, une Dyna 2003 (Wes),une Pan 59, une Pan 62, une Pan 65 (John Copeland), une Sportster 68 (Dr...
Le conte photographique l’Emouvantail, se veut être « l’Echo » d’une histoire d’amour entre un épouvantail etune jeune femme, la Dame de l’O qui pourrait être celle de chacun d’entre nous… Mais pas seulement…
Créée par le Musée de l’Elysée à Lausanne, l’exposition Hans Steiner Chronique de la vie moderne a été présentée à la Fotostiftung de Winterthour, à la Médiathèque Valais-Martigny et au Museo Villa dei Cedri de Bellinzona.
Mouna Saboni est d'origine bretonne, de mère française et de père marocain. Elle a 23 ans et termine sa troisième année à l’ENSP d’Arles. Je voudrais voir la mer est présentée dans le cadre du festival des Boutographies, Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier dédiées aux jeunes photographes. La série sél...
Awol Erizku's photographs reference classical art works to include models of color in order to emphasize, and draw attention to the lack of racial diversity represented in art history.
Erizku creates images such as, Girl with a Bamboo Earring, 2009 in which he repl...
Originally conceived for and presented at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the upcoming exhibition at the Helmut Newton Foundation is dedicated to Newton’s first three legendary publications. The motifs published in the books have been transformed into exhibition prints. During Newton’s lifetime, these photographs bordering between fashion and nude ph...