Independence Day, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1947

Details

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Independence Day, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1947
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed no later than 1956
19 3/8 x 12¾ in. (50.5 x 22.4 cm.)

Literature

Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment, Simon and Schuster, 1952, pl. 39;
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, Little, Brown and Co., 1979, pl. 37;
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World, Thames and Hudson, 2003, pl. 299, p. 214.

Exhibited

Henri Cartier-Bresson, R.B.A. Gallery, London, January 1957, cat. no. 88.

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Lot Essay

On the caption notes in the Magnum files, Cartier-Bresson wrote about this photograph: 'This woman explained to me that the flagpole over her door was broken but "on such a day as this, one keeps one's flag on one's heart." I felt in her a touch of the strength and robustness of the early American pioneers.'

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