Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Soviet Union. Moscow. 1954. 

England. London. Hyde Park in the grey drizzle. 1937.

Maharashtra. Bombay. 1947. An astrologer's shop in the mill workers' quarter of Parel. 

Brussels. 1932.

1962. West Berlin. The Berlin wall.

USA. Washington DC. 1957. At a benefit bazaar.

Soviet Union. Moscow. 1954. Moscow Circus.

Lancashire. Liverpool.

France. Paris. Champs-Elysees. 13 May 1958. Demonstration pro Genral de Gaulle.

Italy. Sicily. Palermo. 1971. Shipyard workers.

France. Paris. 1957. Vélodrome d'Hiver. Six-day races.

West Germany. Rheinland-Westphalia. Düsseldorf. 1956. Ready to wear fashion show.

France. Paris. 13 May 1958. Demonstration pro Genral de Gaulle.

Georgia. 1954. Car race.

France. Paris. 1952. Funeral of French poet Paul Eluard. Left to right: Elsa Triolet, Louis Aragon, Dominique Eluard and Picasso.

Soviet Union. Republic of Tatarstan. Naberezhnye Chelny. 1973. Celebration of the Petrochemical factory. (On May 25th, USSR celebrates Chemistry).

Germany. Dessau. A transit camp was located between the American and Soviet zones organised for refugees; political prisoners, POW's, STO's (Forced Labourers), displaced persons, returning from the Eastern front of Germany that had been liberated by the Soviet Army. A young Belgian woman and former Gestapo informer, being identified as she tried to hide in the crowd. April 1945.

France. Paris. French writer Albert Camus. 1944.

Italy. Basilicata. Grassano. 1973. Pilgrimage to St Innocent.

Cuba. Havana. 1963.

Paris. Avenue du Maine. 1932.

France. Paris. 25 August 1944. Near the Opera, German officers taken prisoner at the nearby Kommandantur. 

Romania. In a train. 1975.

Soviet Union. Moscow. 1954. Canteen for workers building the Hotel Metropol. 

Japan. Mount Aso. 1965.

Soviet Union. Moscow. 1954.

Spain. Andalucia. Grenada. Gypsies. 1933.

Spain. Valencia. 1933.

New York City, 1935

Soviet Union. Estonia. Tallinn. 1973. Cellulos industry. Training for dance championship.

France. Paris. 1952. 11th arrondissement. Flea Market on the Boulevard Richard Lenoir.

Sweden. Town of Kiruna. 1956. Iron mining.

Spain. Andalucia. Seville. 1933.

London. Portobello. 1955.

France. Paris. 1951. Le Marais district. 3rd arrondissement. Rue de Turenne.

France. Marseille. 1932.

Alpes-Maritimes. Juan-les-Pins.

France. Normandy. Calvados. 1969. Stud farm.

USA. NYC. Brooklyn. Grand Street. 1947.

France. Paris. Courreges. Spring-Summer 1969.

Ireland. Munster. Cork County. Cork. 1962.

France. Vaucluse. Avignon. 1969.

West Germany. Hesse. Rüdesheim am Rhein. Assmannshausen. 1953.

Soviet Union. Moscow. 1972. Arbat street. Department store.

USA. California. Big Sur. 1947. US writer, Henry Miller.

France. Pas-de-Calais. Equihen. 1976. Carnival.

Iran. Mazadaran province. 1950. In a village near Ramsar, these farmers show their respect to the landowner.

Soviet Union. Moscow. 1954. Elementary school.

 Delhi. 1966. Street photographer in the old city.

Kashmir. Srinagar. Eunuch dancers and singers. They are dressed like Kashmiri women, dance at weddings and, formerly, for the Maharajah himself.

Paris. Galeries Lafayette.

Paris. Boulevard Saint Germain.

France. French singer, Edith Piaf. Circa 1946.

USA. Fire in Hoboken, facing Manhattan. 1947.

Yugoslavia. Serbia. Belgrade. 1965.

Portugal. Alentejo. Estremoz. 1955. Market day.

USA. North Carolina. 1960.

USA. Mississipi. Natchez. 1947.

USA. New York City. Harlem. 1947.

West Germany. West Berlin. 1962. Watching the construction of the Berlin Wall.

USA. New York City. Manhattan. 1935.

Beijing. December 1948. The Forbidden City.

Beijing. December 1948. Final days of the Kuomintang.

 Beijing. December 1948. This impervious old man at the right is a eunuch who once served in the court of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi when the Imperial Court counted 400 eunuchs. They served as chamberlains to the emperors and their concubines. By 1949, only 40 eunuchs still survived and they were living in a monastery.

Martine's Legs. 1967.

Cyclades. Island of Siphnos. 1961.

 Valencia. 1933.Inside the sliding doors of the bullfight arena.

USA. Colorado. Aspen. Independance Day. 4 July 1971.

France. Côte d'Azur. Var. Saint Tropez. 1959.

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