Forums >
General Industry >
cartier-bresson in amsterdam
ok. not him for real, but his show "In Retrospect" it's gonna be done in a month. i saw it in Berlin and i think it's worth seeing again. hell, i'm going tomorrow (sunday the 19th) if you don't know who he is, you should definitely learn! "Henri Cartier-Bresson - A Retrospective 23 December 2005 - 2 April 2006 Many consider Cartier Bresson to be the most important photographer of the twentieth century. He began taking photos in 1931, while still a painter. In 1935 he started using his soon-to-become inseparable Leica, a 35-mm camera with which he was able to take fast and unobtrusive photos, then considered highly innovative. Before the war he worked in Mexico and Eastern Europe, as well as making photo reports of the Spanish Civil War. In 1944 he photographed the liberation of Paris. After the war, Cartier-Bresson spent many years in India, Burma, China, Indonesia and Tibet. In 1947 Henri Cartier-Bresson, together with Robert Capa, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour, set up a photographic agency, called Magnum Photos. Then in 1954 he was the first Western photographer to gain permission to visit the Soviet Union. Cartier-Bresson was known as the photographer of the âdecisive momentâ. This exhibition provides a retrospective of his work and his life as a photographer, as well as examining what was in his mind at the âdecisive momentâ and what influenced him." Foam_Photography Museum Amsterdam Keizersgracht 609 1017 DS Amsterdam The Netherlands T +31 (0)20 551 6500 [email protected] Feb 18 06 08:18 am Link Thanks for sharing the info Kumi now I've something else apart from the usual shooting, to do while being in Amsterdam the next month Feb 18 06 11:30 am Link |