Photography is Top this Season
Saturday 30th October 2010
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A new exhibition at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA) is no exception. From today, and running until 30th January next year, SFMoMA is hosting a large scale retrospective of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Entitled, Henri Cartier- Bresson: The Modern Century, the exhibition features around 300 prints from Cartier-Bresson's professional career from 1929 through to 1989.
Interestingly, around a fifth of the works that are on display have never been presented to the public, making this a key exhibitions for fans of the photographers work. The exhibition was organised by the chief curator of the photography department at MoMA, NY, Peter Galassi, with the staging of the exhibition at SFMoMA being overseen by Corey Keller, associate curator of photography at SFMoMA.
Cartier-Bresson is a key figure in the history of photography, possessing an extraordinary ability to capture modern life on the move. Rarely can Cartier-Bresson's oeuvre be mentioned without making reference to the "decisive moment", a term used to remark upon this ability to perfectly capture a time and place.
If you can't make it over to San Francisco to catch the exhibition, make sure you pick up a copy of the exhibition catalogue, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
