Object number2002.11

Alberto Giacometti, rue d'Alésia, Paris, France

Date1961

Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)

CultureFrench

MediumGelatin silver print, printed 1963

DimensionsImage: 14 x 9 3/8 in. (35.56 x 23.81 cm)
Sheet: 15 3/4 x 11 13/16 in. (40.01 x 30 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Advisory Council for Photography

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, center in ink: a avec l’artiste / d’Henri (?) Alberto allant / prendre son petit / dejeuner 1963; in pencil: 7173-27; lower left corner: FLLAC 2002.11

BibliographyHistories of Photography (Poughkeepsie: FLLAC, 2003), p. 4; Cartier-Bresson, Henri, and Philippe Arbaizar. The Man, the Image and the World: a Retrospective / Henri Cartier-Bresson. London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, p. 168; Cartier-Bresson, Henri, Clément Chéroux, David H. Wilson, and Ruth Sharman. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 272; Lombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 74; Cartier-Bresson, Henri, and Matthieu Humery. Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le grand jeu / commissaires de l’exposition/exhibition curated by/mostra a cura di Matthieu Humery, Sylvie Aubenas, Javier Cercas, Annie Leibovitz, François Pinault, Wim Wenders, textes/texts/testi Sylvie Aubenas, Javier Cercas, François Hébel, Matthieu Humery, Annie Leibovitz, François Pinault, Aude Raimbault, Agnès Sire, Wim Wenders. Première édition. Venezia: Marsilio, 2020, pl. 361

Vassar Exhibitions

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryHistories of Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, July 5 - September 21, 2003;

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019
DescriptionImage of a man in the rain with his coat raised slightly over his head, crossing the street

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