The exhibition hall of Fundación MAPFRE will be hosting a Henri Cartier-Bresson retrospective from 28 June to 7 September 2014. Featuring over five hundred photographs, drawings, paintings, films and documents; the exhibition has been organised by the Centre Pompidou de Paris with the participation of the Cartier-Bresson Foundation. This is the first major retrospective exhibition to be held in Europe since the artist's death. The exhibition hall is located at Paseo de Recoletos, 23, 28004, Madrid.

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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON 28 JUNE - 7 SEPTEMBER 2014

The HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON exhibition can be seen from June 28 until September 7. 2014 at the exhibition hall of FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE (Paseo de Recoletos, 23, 28004, Madrid). It covers the long career of this great photographer, one of the most important of the 20th century. This is the first major retrospective exhibition to be held in Europe since the artist's death. It includes over five hundred photographs, drawings, paintings, films and documents that cover over seventy years of one of the most important figures of modern times.

The exhibition has been organized by the Centre Pompidou de Paris, in collaboration with FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE, with the participation of the Cartier-Bresson Foundation. The works come from over twenty international collections, including the Cartier-Bresson Foundation of Paris, the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Cinémathèque Française, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, MOMA of New York and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition invites us to rethink the work of Cartier
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Bresson, known as the "eye of the century" for being a key eyewitness of 20th century history. For the first time, the richness of his work and the diversity of his career as a photographer are on display: from surrealist esthetics to photojournalism or his intimate style of later years. In this way, the work on display goes beyond the "decisive moment" concept that made him famous.

The journey, both chronological and thematic, revolves around three central points: the period from 1926 to 1935, which was marked by his relationship with the surrealist movement, his early years as a photographer and his travels throughout the world. The second section is dedicated to the political commitment of Henri Cartier
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Bresson from his return from the United States in 1936 until his visit to New York in 1946. The third sequence starts with the creation of the Magnum Photos agency in 1947 and extends to the early 1970s, when the artist stopped working in photojournalism.

THE CATALOGUE

For this retrospective exhibition, FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE has published the Spanish version of the catalogue published by Éditions du Centre Pompidou under the direction of Clément Chéroux.

This catalogue, with extensive text from the curator and reproductions of all the works on display at the exhibition, has become a benchmark work for future studies of the artist.

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