Shop window. 1931
Photograph
1931 (made)
1931 (made)
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Photograph depicting a shop front with a male mannequin head and a painting of a dancing couple, beneath lettering in Magyar.
Object details
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| Title | Shop window. 1931 (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Photograph |
| Brief description | Black and white photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson depicting a shop front with a mannequin head and a painting of a dancing couple. Hungary, 1931. |
| Physical description | Photograph depicting a shop front with a male mannequin head and a painting of a dancing couple, beneath lettering in Magyar. |
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| Gallery label | Gallery 100 ‘A History of Photography’, 2014-2015, label text:
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004)
Shop Window, Hungary
1931
Cartier-Bresson studied under the Cubist artist André Lhote. He became interested in photography in 1930, around the same time he met the Surrealists. This surreal image of a shop window reveals a strong sense of geometry and composition. Cartier-Bresson said of his photography, ‘For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously’.
Gelatin silver print
Museum no. Ph.645-1978
(06 03 2014) |
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| Accession number | PH.645-1978 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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