Giacometti Going out for Breakfast, Paris
Artist/Culture
Henri Cartier-Bresson
(French, 1908–2004)
Date1963
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions34.9 x 23.5 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineEliza S. Paine Fund in memory of William R. and Frances T. C. Paine
Terms
Object number1969.71
Label TextAn early master of the hand-held camera, Cartier-Bresson took photography out of the studio and into the street. He studied to be a painter but took up photography around 1932. During World War II he worked underground with the French Resistance, and he photographed the Liberation of Paris in 1944.
Among Cartier-Bresson’s friends was the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), himself a key figure within the Surrealist movement. He represented his models with an existential perspective, implying the emptiness of modern life in attenuated figures and vacant expressions.
ProvenanceHenri Cartier-Bresson through Mrs. Helen Wright, New York, New YorkOn View
Not on view
