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Cartier-Bresson at MoMA


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The only issue there is that MoMA makes a lot less on the catalog. While I sometimes do buy books through Amazon, I generally buy catalogs direct from the museums, all of whom are hurting in this economy.

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I'm in NYC at the moment and took the afternoon off yesterday to visit the HCB exhibit. Very interesting, I especially liked the contextual magazine displays. This is my first time at MoMA since the new exhibit building opened and I wasn't impressed. I don't think this building helps to exhibit art at all. Additionally the HCB exhibit is kind of confusing, with some sequences going from left to right on a wall and some right to left. I thought many photographs were poorly laid down, matted and framed. The laying down issue I can understand, the provenance is on the back so you can't glue them down but I didn't like the presentation on the wall. Also some pictures were very high, the ones inside the bank for example - shorter people just couldn't squint up enough.

 

Having got the moaning off my chest it is well worth seeing because there are so many pictures there that haven't been displayed before. HCB did a very good job captioning his longer reportage. Some of the print work from Pierre Gassman is absolutely outstanding, especially HCB's later work. When is Gassman going to get the recognition he deserves? He's a genius! Also it was very interesting to see original prints from Mexico and Spain, his early work which I like a lot.

 

It's definitely worth a visit if you're in the vicinity. If not, absolutely get the catalog even if you already have lots of HCB books.

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Sure. Adapt your own behavior if you want. I'll choose to move with the flow of the economic future. You can't fight it. That is dope.

 

The book came today and it is recommended. This thing is a tome. 376 pages. Nice reproductions. Very well documented and indexed. I haven't seen every HBC book, but this is maybe my favorite.

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This article appeared in todays Wall Street Journal and is very favorable. Having not seen the show, I feel uncomfortable commenting. But I do love the following quote from the article:

 

"Through the '60s and '70s, photographers at social occasions everywhere wore Leicas around their necks in hopes of being mistaken for the next Cartier-Bresson."

 

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Modern Century, at the Museum of Modern Art | By Richard B. Woodward - WSJ.com

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