Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Seville, Spain

Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)

CultureFrench

Date1933, printed 1940s

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 11/16 × 14 1/2 in. (24.6 × 36.8 cm)
Overall, Support: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 1/16 × 24 1/16 in. (48.4 × 61.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank

Object number2002.12

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a vintage gelatin silver print made in the 1940s from the orginal negative.
Label Texttop Robert Capa Hungarian, 1913–1954 Republican Women Volunteers Learning to Handle Weapons During the Spanish Civil War, 1936 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed ca. 1983 Museum purchase 2017.16.2 bottom Henri Cartier-Bresson French, 1908–2004 Seville, Spain, 1933 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1940s Museum purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank 2002.12 When Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa formed Magnum Photos in 1947, they set out to change the look of photojournalism. Owned and operated by artists, the photo agency encouraged members to develop their own visual styles when capturing contemporary events. Capa was known for his frontline war photographs and in 1938 the magazine Picture Post called him “the greatest war photographer in the world.” Between 1936 and 1938 he traveled to Spain to make images of the civil war, producing photographs like this one of militiawomen. Cartier-Bresson travelled broadly in Asia, Europe, and the United States, producing images that convey his experience. Less concerned with reportage than Capa, he sought to compose expressive scenes—an approach to photography he theorized in his trendsetting 1952 book The Decisive Moment. ProvenanceHenri Cartier-Bresson; Anonymous collector, who bequethed this to another collector; Edwynn Houk Gallery; Chrysler Museum of Art Purchase, in memory of Alice R. and Sol B. Frank, 2002. Exhibition History"Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "Photographs Take Time: Pictures from the Chrysler Collection," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, April 6 - August 26, 2018.Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson, _Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers on Their Art_ (New York: Aperture Foundation, 2004), 148-149. Jeff Harrison, _Collecting with Vision: Treasures From the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (London: D. Giles Ltd., 2007), 113, fig. 135. ISBN: 978-0-940744-72-1