The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman
The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Berlin Wall, Federal Republic of Germany
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December 16, 04:21 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908 - 2004
The Berlin Wall, Federal Republic of Germany
gelatin silver print, signed in ink and embossed in the margin, with credit, title, and date in pencil on the reverse, 1962, printed later
image: 9 ¼ by 13 ⅞ in. (23.5 by 35.2 cm.)
Acquired from the photographer
Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art (Boston, 1996), p. 143
'In Europe and America,' American Photo Magazine, September/October 1997, pp. 58-9
Peter Fetterman, ed., Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Master Set (Santa Monica: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2004), pl. 141
'If I go to a place, it’s not to record what is going on only. It’s to try and have a picture which concretizes a situation in one glance and which has the strong relations of shapes. And when I go to a country, well, I’m hoping always to get that one picture about which people will say, “Ah, this is so true. You felt it right.”'
-Henri Cartier-Bresson, as quoted in ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson: ‘There Are No Maybes’,' The New York Times, 21 June 2013