Exhibit: Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Exhibit: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson
(c) 2010 Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Santa Clara, Mexico, 1934-35
The show makes clear that in his early career work, Cartier-Bresson showed that many of the obsessions of Surrealist fantasy — the shocking juxtapositions, erotic concealments, dismembered anatomies — could be found in the ordinary life of the streets.

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