Henri Cartier Bresson art links 

Original works by Henri Cartier-Bresson available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Banks of the Seine
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French)  
Online exhibition: "Henri Cartier-Bresson: De qui s'agit-il?"

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)  

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
China, ca.1960

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Henri Cartier-Bresson in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson   NEW!
William Faulkner

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago
Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Henri Cartier-Bresson at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Tete a Tete: Portraits by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Behind the Saint-Lazare Station, Paris, 1932

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City   NEW!
Untitled (Jumping Man), 1932

Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba   NEW!

 

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

 

AnalisisFotografia (in Spanish)  

Chim: A Web Biography of David Seymour

Magnum Photos   NEW!

Photo Seminars Online

 

Answers.com reference works  
The "Art Encyclopedia" entry is from the Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (2002). The "Photography Encyclopedia" entry is from the The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005).

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Henri Cartier-Bresson  
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

eHow
"How to Recognize Art by Henri Cartier-Bresson" - brief, but has a few useful insights

PhotoQuotes

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Why Cartier-Bresson, The Peintre Manqué, Became Photographer

 

The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
Richard Avedon discusses Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Charlie Rose Interview Show (PBS)
A 2000 conversation with Henri Cartier-Bresson

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson: Mexican Notebooks 1934-1964 look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Artless Art look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Propos de Paris look inside Europeans look inside Tete a Tete look inside Henri Cartier-Bresson: City and Landscapes look inside Portfolio