Exhibit: Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson

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

Coney Island, New York, 1946
Though he is always considered a pioneering photojournalist, Cartier-Bresson's greatest gift was probably for pictures that didn't "report" anything more newsworthy than, say, this erotic storm system of bodies, glimpsed on a New York beach in 1946.

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