Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century

The Museum of Modern Art announced Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, the first major retrospective in the U.S. in more than 30 years of one of photography's most original and influential masters, from April 11 through June 28, 2010.

The exhibition comprises 300 prints from 1929 to 1989, at least one fifth of them previously unknown to the public, and focuses on the most productive decades of the 1930s through the 1960s.

Also included is a generous selection of original issues of Life, Paris Match, and other magazines in which many of the pictures first appeared.

Cartier-Bresson's uncanny talent for seizing lasting images from the flux of experience, long identified with the title of his book The Decisive Moment (1952), made him a leading figure both in photography's experimental modernism of the 1930s and the very different realm of photojournalism after World War II.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century offers a fresh overview of that complex achievement by drawing upon a great deal of previously inaccessible information and images from the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris.

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