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“I’ve always known the Scrapbook—first packed away in an old suitcase that came from Henri’s mother’s apartment, then tucked away in our bookcase—half-hidden from prying eyes.”
Martine Franck
Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940; after two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in February 1943. Meanwhile, the MoMA in New York, believing the photographer had disappeared, began preparing a “posthumous” exhibition of his work.
When he reappeared, he was delighted to learn that the exhibition would go ahead, even though he was still alive. Henri Cartier-Bresson decided to review his entire body of work and to select for himself everything that “held up.” He selected and printed more than 300 images, many of which had never been seen before, and then set off for New York in April 1946, carrying the prints in his suitcase. Upon his arrival, he bought a large album—a “scrapbook”—in which he pasted all the images before showing them at MoMA. The exhibition opened on February 4, 1947, just before the founding of Magnum.
In the 1990s, Henri Cartier-Bresson took a renewed interest in his “scrapbook” and removed most of the prints in order to better protect them. The HCB Foundation, which now owns the collection, has completed the restoration, making it possible today to exhibit to the public a truly exceptional body of previously unseen work.
Published by Steidl, exhibition catalog for Henri Cartier-Bresson’s*Scrapbook*, 2006 , at the HCB Foundation in Paris.
27.9 cm 32.8 cm, 256 pages, in very good condition
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“I’ve always known the Scrapbook—first packed away in an old suitcase that came from Henri’s mother’s apartment, then tucked away in our bookcase—half-hidden from prying eyes.”
Martine Franck
Henri Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans in 1940; after two unsuccessful attempts, he managed to escape in February 1943. Meanwhile, the MoMA in New York, believing the photographer had disappeared, began preparing a “posthumous” exhibition of his work.
When he reappeared, he was delighted to learn that the exhibition would go ahead, even though he was still alive. Henri Cartier-Bresson decided to review his entire body of work and to select for himself everything that “held up.” He selected and printed more than 300 images, many of which had never been seen before, and then set off for New York in April 1946, carrying the prints in his suitcase. Upon his arrival, he bought a large album—a “scrapbook”—in which he pasted all the images before showing them at MoMA. The exhibition opened on February 4, 1947, just before the founding of Magnum.
In the 1990s, Henri Cartier-Bresson took a renewed interest in his “scrapbook” and removed most of the prints in order to better protect them. The HCB Foundation, which now owns the collection, has completed the restoration, making it possible today to exhibit to the public a truly exceptional body of previously unseen work.
Published by Steidl, exhibition catalog for Henri Cartier-Bresson’s*Scrapbook*, 2006 , at the HCB Foundation in Paris.
27.9 cm 32.8 cm, 256 pages, in very good condition
ISBN
