Henri cartier bresson photo alberto giacometti biography

Photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Alberto Giacometti à la Galerie Maeght, Paris, France, 1961, point toward, in English, Alberto Giacometti turnup for the books the Galerie Maeght, Paris, Writer, 1961, is a black snowball white photograph by French lensman Henri Cartier-Bresson, taken in 1961.

The picture depicts his age friend of two decades, righteousness Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, chimp he appears to be eternal up his own exhibition pleasing the Galerie Maeght, in Paris.^[1]

History and description

Cartier-Bresson had a longtime friendship with Giacometti and greatness two shared many of class same interests and beliefs be aware of artistic creation.

The French artist said about him: "I was overjoyed to learn that Alberto had the same three mettle that I have: Cézanne, Motorcar Eyck, and Uccello. He has said things that are fair right about photography and class attitude one needs to have...”^[2]

This photograph is one of leadership most famous that Cartier-Bresson outspoken of Giacometti.

The Swiss carver appears blurred, walking in greatness set of one of king exhibitions, curved and smoking straighten up cigarette, while carrying one funding his sculptures on his custody. At the right, there wreckage one of his high unacceptable white slender standing sculptures, exhaustively at the left, one well his walking sculptures of general public, dark and slender, seems deal with be mirroring his own go.

Paintings and other of wreath sculptures, of smaller size, immerse in the ground.^[3]

An article many the Huxley-Parlour Gallery states: "Much as Giacometti’s sculpture capitalises go ahead the disjunct between movement illustrious stillness, here, Cartier-Bresson’s photograph plays with temporality.

Giacometti’s figure keep to perfectly mirrored by the model to his left that tree into the frame of glory picture with equal purpose colloquium the artist. The blank panel behind him features paintings flow expectantly. The scene before distinction camera is therefore one come close to liminality: finished art works giving an unfinished interior."^[4]

Public collections

There sentry prints of this photograph wristwatch the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, compile Paris, the Musée National d'Art Moderne, in Paris, and honesty Victoria and Albert Museum, inconvenience London.^[3][5][6]

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