The exhibition, curated by Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson , of the Magnum Photos Agency and the Contrasto Agency, is organized by Imago Multimedia – a photographic agency and publishing house in Nuoro – with the fundamental contribution of the Sardinia Regional Promotion Agency and the collaboration of the MAN Museum. A unique event in Sardinia, it includes 155 photographs that were chosen by the author himself, with the intention of creating a comprehensive retrospective of his photographic work. The exhibition is like a long journey through the time of Henri Cartier-Bresson and his being present in every moment of existence; no one like him has been able to condense, over the years of intense photographic and artistic activity around the world, a precise and profound, conscious and original observation in every situation. The documentary reality and Henri Cartier-Bresson’s propensity not to manipulate the gaze and the event he found in front of him, finds its outlet in a profound poetry of everyday life, of common gestures, events and faces apparently unimportant. But whether they are street people – children playing, street vendors, passers-by – in the usual times of work and in the rituals of celebration, or whether they are the protagonists of the main events of the twentieth century – the end of the Second World War, the death of Gandhi, the most famous artists of the moment – ​​every event is an opportunity for him to exercise inner awareness; an action and an exercise that condensed life into significant moments, “decisive moments” that he – and only he – managed to grasp when he managed to “put the heart, the mind and the eye on the same line of sight”. An exhibition that undermines the weaknesses, the inconsistencies, the distractions of our gaze today even too solicited by images that run fast; an exhibition that pays homage to the entire work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, to drawing and painting which were his first true passions and which he was the first in the West to be able to share and articulate in a fullness where the relationship and use of the different means of expression are just a game, useful for communicating with others.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Photographer

Henri Cartier-Bresson
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