Past
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William Eggleston — From Black and White to Color
Past: September 9 → December 21, 2014
“William Eggleston : From Black and White to Color” includes some exceptional as yet unpublished photographs borrowed from the artist’s collection and various lenders, and displays the evolution, ruptures and above all the radicalness of Eggleston’s work when he began photographing in color at the end of the 1960s.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Emmet Gowin
Past: May 14 → July 27, 2014
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson is holding an exhibition on the American photographer Emmet Gowin. This important retrospective is showing 130 prints of one of the most original and influential photographers of the last forty years.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Archives
Guido Guidi — Veramente
Past: January 16 → April 27, 2014
Guido Guidi figures prominently in contemporary Italian photography. For the first time in France, the forty years of his career as photographer, pioneer of the resurgence in photography of territory and area, are revisited.
Architecture, photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Sergio Larrain — Vagabondages
Past: September 11 → December 22, 2013
The HCB foundation presents a unique exhibition on the Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain. The collection retraces the essential of the artist’s unique trajectory. Rare images and a poetic approach, a brilliant photographer who inspired a whole generation of photographers.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Vanessa Winship — She dances on Jackson
Past: May 15 → July 28, 2013
Vanessa Winship photographs America, the persistence of the American dream: “For me photography is like a process of becoming literate, a progression by which I understand that life is not presented to us in the form of a perfectly structured story”.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Archives
Moï Wer — Ci-Contre
Past: September 12 → December 23, 2012
Pour la première fois à Paris, l’ouvrage « Ci-contre » réunit un ensemble important de tirages d’époque de l’artiste d’origine lituanienne, Moi Wer, artiste brillant à la croisée de la Nouvelle Vision et des recherches cinématographiques les plus avancées de l’époque.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Archives
Yutaka Takanashi
Past: May 10 → July 29, 2012
For the first time in France, Fondation HCB will be showing the emblematic series of Yutaka Takanashi, one of the great master of Japanese photography. Yutaka Takanashi has always photographed the city, sometimes on the lookout for an image charged with poetry, sometimes ‘picking up’ a scrap of reality.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Paul Strand — Mexique 1932-1934
Past: January 11 → April 22, 2012
Bringing together such different works by two great masters in the history of photography is not self-evident. There are many points of convergence, but their styles are profoundly different. The American’s immobility contrasts with Frenchman’s fluidity. They both travelled to Mexico during the same period and they crossed paths in New York in 1935.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Lewis Hine
Past: September 7 → December 18, 2011
Armé de sa lourde chambre photographique en bois, Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940) fut un combattant acharné pour la justice sociale. Convaincu que la nécessité de la production industrielle asservit les hommes…
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Mitch Epstein — American Power, l’énergie ou le pouvoir américain
Past: May 4 → July 24, 2011
En 2003, suite à commande pour le New York Times, Mitch Epstein se rend à Cheshire dans l’Ohio. Un village complet doit être abandonné pour cause de pollution. En dédommageant les habitants, l’American Electric Power, la société responsable de la contamination du sol cherche à ce qu’ils partent sans bruit.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
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David Goldblatt — TJ, 1948–2010
Past: January 12 → April 17, 2011
Johannesburg est une ville fragmentée avec une histoire complexe et douloureuse. La ville naît en 1886 grâce à la découverte des mines d’or. Dès le début, les blancs qui dirigent les services publics et les compagnies minières mettent en place la ségrégation raciale réduisant les populations noires à l’état de simple main d’œuvre.
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Archives
Harry Callahan — Variations
Past: September 7 → December 19, 2010
Fondation HCB presents an exhibition of work by American photographer Harry Callahan (1912-1999).
For the Month of Photography’s thirtieth birthday, the MEP has made available a large number of works from its collections. Fondation HCB has chosen an important body of work by Harry Callahan, including photographs f…
Photography
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
03 Le Marais
03 Le Marais
Arts et Métiers
Rambuteau
Temple
Opening hours
Every day except Monday, 11 AM – 7 PM
Admission fee
Full rate €9.00 — Concessions €5.00
Gratuit pour les Amis de la Fondation.