MOMA Exhibit on Cartier-Bresson a Must!

I highly recommend the MOMA exhibit on Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004). His ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment”—the title of his first major book. In the 1940s he joined Robert Capa and others in founding the Magnum photo agency, which enabled photojournalists to reach a broad audience through magazines such as Life. For more than twenty-five years, he was a skilled observer of the global theater of human affairs and one of the great portraitists of the twentieth century. MoMA’s retrospective, the first in the United States in three decades, surveys Cartier-Bresson’s entire career with about three hundred photographs.

“Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century” runs from April 11 through June 28 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. It travels to the Art Institute of Chicago (July 24 to Oct. 3); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (Oct. 30 to Jan. 30); and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta (Feb. 19 to May 15).