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ArtJune 2010 Exhibition note by Nola Tully On “Henri Cartier-Bresson:The Modern Century” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In a 1971 essay, Hilton Kramer praised Henri Cartier-Bresson’s (1908–2004) immense talent for photography: I think of Henry James’s comment on a visitor’s (obviously his own) first experience of the Théâtre Français: “He has heard all his life of attention to detail, and now, for the first time, he sees something that deserves that name.” The Museum of Modern Art in New York has recently installed an extensive retrospective of Cartier-Bresson’s work, which elevated the documentary style to high art. “The Modern Century” explores twentieth-century change, not only in the medium of photography, which was influenced by the advent of magazine journalism, but also in societies across the globe, from ancient cultures to a postwar Europe. The show includes 300 gelatin silver prints, and those ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 28 June 2010, on page 46 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-5330
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