Valencia, Spain
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1933 · Gelatin Silver Print · Photographs
The advent of small, fast, hand-held cameras allowed photographers like Cartier-Bresson to isolate from the routine occurrences of daily life moments pregnant with a hidden poetry. The resulting images are seldom unequivocal. Has this child been stabbed, or is he in the throes of an ecstatic dance? Actually, he is arching his back to catch sight of a ball, but the photographer translated his play into an image of rapture.
- Artist
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Date
- 1933
- Medium
- Gelatin Silver Print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
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