{"id":546397,"date":"2010-04-28T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2010\/apr\/28\/slide-show-henri-cartier-bresson\/"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:10:07","slug":"slide-show-henri-cartier-bresson-genius-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546397","title":{"rendered":"Slide Show: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Genius at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"378\" id=\"soundslider\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/cartierbresson\/soundslider.swf?size=2&#038;format=xml\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.nybooks.com\/slideshows\/cartierbresson\/soundslider.swf?size=2&#038;format=xml\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" width=\"480\" height=\"378\" menu=\"false\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em><span class=\"dquo\">&#8220;<\/span>The art of photography is deliciously impure: its aesthetic triumphs and traditions are inescapably enmeshed in the messy world of work.&#8221; So writes Peter Galassi, curator of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/visit\/calendar\/exhibitions\/968\">Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century<\/a>,&#8221; the Museum of Modern Art&#8217;s ambitious new exhibition devoted to the work of one of the most brilliant photographers of the twentieth century. On view through June 28, 2010, the exhibition presents Cartier-Bresson&#8217;s work in a daring way&#8212;his most iconic masterpieces share wall space with lesser-known photographs from throughout his career. In this audio slide show, the photographer Dominique Nabokov&#8212;whose own work appears regularly in <\/em>The New York Review<em>&#8212;talks about the exhibition and the ways in which Cartier-Bresson&#8217;s daily works reveal his genius. An additional photograph from the exhibition appears in the <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/apr\/19\/austerity\/\">May 13 issue<\/a> of<\/em>\u00a0The New York&nbsp;Review.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p align=\"right\"><em>&#8212;Dominique Nabokov interviewed by Eve Bowen;<br \/>\n   slide show produced by Eve Bowen and Sean&nbsp;Hagerty<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=HkDwL2v0XGQ:evVnZ4l_BWM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=HkDwL2v0XGQ:evVnZ4l_BWM:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=HkDwL2v0XGQ:evVnZ4l_BWM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=HkDwL2v0XGQ:evVnZ4l_BWM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=HkDwL2v0XGQ:evVnZ4l_BWM:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?a=HkDwL2v0XGQ:evVnZ4l_BWM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/nyrblog?i=HkDwL2v0XGQ:evVnZ4l_BWM:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/nyrblog\/~4\/HkDwL2v0XGQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The art of photography is deliciously impure: its aesthetic triumphs and traditions are inescapably enmeshed in the messy world of work.&#8221; So writes Peter Galassi, curator of &#8220;Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century,&#8221; the Museum of Modern Art&#8217;s ambitious new exhibition devoted to the work of one of the most brilliant photographers of the twentieth century. 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