The Cartier-Bresson Basis has two new exhibitions on provide, one of many work of American photographer Paul Strand (1890-1976), and the opposite juxtaposing pictures of Mexico from Cartier-Bresson and Helen Levitt (1913-2009).
The exhibition of photographs by Paul Strand explores not solely his a lot commented ‘direct pictures’ fashion (with many placing portraits) but in addition his political actions, as these finally led to him leaving the USA (roughly forcibly) to stay in France.
You’ll be capable of scrutinise round 120 photographs lent by the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid, with a number of extra from the Pompidou Centre, and Strand’s movie Manhatta (1921) made with Charles Sheeler may also be accessible to look at.
The second exhibition exhibits photographs of Mexico taken by Helen Levitt, evaluating them with photographs of the identical nation taken by Cartier-Bresson. The 2 photographers met in New York within the spring of 1935. She was solely 21 and had by no means travelled, however already beloved Cartier-Bresson’s pictures from Mexico. A number of years later, in 1941, she visited the nation with the intention to take her personal photographs, looking for a way of intimacy with the folks she immortalised.
Round 60 photographs by Levitt and Cartier-Bresson are on present, along with paperwork retracing the respective peregrinations of the 2 photographers in Mexico, and your go to will nearly actually be the primary time you see the Basis’s new extension – their vaulted stone cellars relationship from the 18th century (6.5m huge and three.5m excessive) have simply been renovated to supply an additional 100m² of exhibition area.
Which means that the Basis now has a complete of 500m² for its exhibitions, making it considered one of Paris’ greatest and prestigious areas devoted to pictures 😃
If you want a good-looking memento of you time on the Basis, a listing of the Levitt / Cartier-Bresson exhibition (156 pages, 82 photographies, 45€) is offered from twenty eighth February right here at your native amazon.
And French-speakers can discover extra details about the present exhibitions and the subsequent one (associated to the official crowning of King Charles III) within the press launch under.
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Expositions Paul Strand / H… by jasonfist
The exhibitions Henri Cartier-Bresson / Helen Levitt and Paul Strand are on the HCR Fondation (right here) type 14th February to twenty third April 2023
Open day-after-day besides Mondays from 11am-7pm
Admisison: 10€ / 6€
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