{"id":1617,"date":"2011-04-08T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/info-libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2023-07-19T16:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T16:27:44","slug":"1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/04\/08\/1952\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 92 – 1952: The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: New York, 1952\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hailed by many as the father of modern photojournalism, Henri Cartier-Bresson here presents the culmination of twenty-five years of work. \u00a0By this point in his life, Cartier-Bresson had shared New York gallery space with Walker Evans; had escaped from a Nazi POW camp on his third attempt, after nearly three years of forced labor; and had co-founded Magnum Photos, an international photo cooperative that remains in operation today (one of his co-founders was Robert Capa, who was featured in our posting for 1938).<\/p>\n

Previously a painter, Cartier-Bresson describes the interlude when he came to photography, which happened while convalescing in Marseille after a nearly fatal brush with blackwater fever:<\/p>\n

I prowled the streets all day, feeling very strung-up and ready to pounce, determined to \u201ctrap\u201d life \u2013 to preserve life in the act of living. \u00a0Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Words will do little justice to his photographs, so we\u2019ll simply allow these few images to speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

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Published: New York, 1952 Hailed by many as the father of modern photojournalism, Henri Cartier-Bresson here presents the culmination of twenty-five years of work. \u00a0By this point in his life, Cartier-Bresson had shared New York gallery space with Walker Evans; had escaped from a Nazi POW camp on his third attempt, after nearly three years of forced labor; and had co-founded Magnum Photos, an international photo cooperative that remains in operation today (one of his co-founders was Robert Capa, who was featured in our posting for 1938). Previously a painter, Cartier-Bresson describes the interlude when he came to photography, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-years","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}