Christian Bérard, First Hotel, Paris

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1932, printed 1946 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

In addition to the remarkable street photographs he made across Europe with a 35mm camera in the early 1930s, Cartier-Bresson made candid portraits of friends and acquaintances, such as this picture of the disheveled neo-Romantic painter and designer for the theater (1902-1949) swaddled in bedcovers and lying next to his valise-the idea of sleep and dreams as the artist's field of research and font of inspiration that recalls the sign that André Breton hung outside his bedroom each night: "Quiet Please. Poet at Work."

Artist

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Date

1932, printed 1946

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987