photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Albert Camus, Paris, 1944.
Coney Island, New York, 1946.
Romania, 1975.
Naples, Italy, 1960.
A football game, Michigan vs. Northwestern, 1960.
At the Le Mans Auto Race, France, 1966.
Uzbekistan, 1954.
Visitors from kolkhozy to the eleventh-century Alaverdi monastery, 1972.
Improvised canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropol, 1954.
The Arbat, Moscow, 1972.
Chelny, Russia, 1973.
Boston, 1947.
New York, 1935.
An African-American student is denied entry to a theater. He keeps his hands in his pockets to demonstrate that his protest is nonviolent, 1961.
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, 1960.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Paris, 1946.
Dessau, Germany, April, 1945.
Nehru Announces Gandhi's Death, Birla House, Delhi, 1948.
Dessau, Germany, April, 1945.
World's Fair, Brussels, 1958.
Simone de Beauvoir, Paris, 1946.
New York, 1960.
Bankers Trust, New York, 1960.
Near Strasbourg, France, 1944.
The arrival of a boat carrying refugees from Europe reunites a mother and son who had been separated throughout the war, 1946.
Communist students demonstrate against the black market. Behind them is the Soon Bank, owned by Chiang Kai-shek’s father-in-law, 1949.
McCann-Erickson Agency, Madison Avenue, New York, 1959.
New York, 1947.
Daughters of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, 1960.
San Francisco, 1960.
Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie, Paris, 1945.
Waiting in Red Square to visit Lenin’s Tomb, 1954.
The Great Leap Forward, China, 1958.
Printer, Paris, 1969.
Hamburg, Germany. The sign reads, “Looking for any kind of work.” 1952-1953.
Automobile Show, Paris, 1968.
Brie, France, 1968.
La Châtre, France, 1968.
Near Rennes, France, 1960.
La Villette, Paris, 1929.
Truman Capote, New Orleans, 1947.
At the Le Mans Auto Race, France, 1966.
Visit of General de Gaulle, Munich, 1962.
Pause Between Two Poses, 1989.
Martine's Legs, 1967.
Bernay, France, 1960.
ZIS Factory, Moscow. ZIS is an acronym for “Factory named for Stalin.” 1954.