HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)

4th of July, Cape Cod, 1947

Details

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
4th of July, Cape Cod, 1947
gelatin silver print, printed 1970s
signed in ink and copyright blindstamp (in the margin)
13¾ x 9 1/8in. (35 x 23.2cm.)

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

Lot Essay

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.' - Henri Cartier-Bresson

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