Henri Cartier-Bresson

[Academic reception]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Baseball is an Integral Part of Family Life

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Brie, France]

Getty Museum · May–June 1968

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[Brussels, Belgium]

Getty Museum · 1932

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Bus Line-up in Washington, D.C. Everyday, Promptly at 4:30 p.m., Some 450,000 Federal Government Employees Queue for Busses and Trolleys to Take Them Home.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Bus stop and building facade]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Cafeteria for personnel in a Houston oil plant.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Calle Cuauhtemocztin, Mexico City]

Getty Museum · 1934

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Cattle Stockyards in Houston, Texas

Getty Museum · 1957

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Chemistry class in Austin High School, Houston, Texas. "Education is too technical in America. They should study more of the humanities."

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Children playing]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Children's Party at Draveil, France]

Getty Museum · about 1955–1958

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Consecration To Knowledge - a major event each year, for parents, is the graduation of their children from universities and schools. Parents empty their pocketbooks to give their children a better education than they had.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Construction site]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Construction site]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Consult (EZ) Immeubles sign]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Cotton warehouses in Houston's port can store 2,250,000 bales, making it one of America's major cotton export centers.

Getty Museum · 1957

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Dancing Texas students at their Frontier Fiesta.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Dieppe, France]

Getty Museum · 1926

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End of a weary day for a New York mother.

Getty Museum · 1957

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Family Life - Despite the comparative wealth of American families, there are a few who can afford maids or nurses for their children. And part-time baby-sitters are a luxury, for they charge over a dollar an hour.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Five College Students Surveying]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Four women at a formal dinner]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Freighter "Canada" and grain elevators]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Girls in Parade]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Group in doorway]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Group in formal dress]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Group of spectators on reviewing stand]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Horse Racing at Miami's Hialeah Race Track, Whose Famous Trademark is the Herd of Pink Flamingoes Stalking about the Race Paddock

Getty Museum · 1957

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[House on flatbed trailer]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Houston members of the Bluebird Society paint some 3,000 eggs for Easter Sunday in the First Methodist Church.

Getty Museum · 1957

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Houston's exclusive River Oaks Country Club where members prefer to ride over the golf course rather than walk.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Hyères, France]

Getty Museum · negative 1932

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In spacious Washington, young men play in front of the George Washington Memorial after working hours.

Getty Museum · 1957

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Ladies Day - while their husbands earn money, American housewives organize charitable ways of spending it.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Landscape]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Legislature]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Legislature]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Listening to Billy Graham, in New York's Madison Square Garden. "Poor ladies what sins could they have committed."

Getty Museum · 1957

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Loading Flour in Houston's Port

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Man adjusting funeral flowers]

Getty Museum · 1967

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[Man Smoking a Cigar While Sketching Outdoors]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Marilyn Monroe during shooting "the Misfits."

Getty Museum · 1960

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[Marilyn Monroe with the cast of "Misfits."]

Getty Museum · 1960

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[Marseilles]

Getty Museum · 1932

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Members leaving Palm Beach's super-exclusive Everglades Club. "They look like British Royal Family types."

Getty Museum · 1957

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Miami's tourists save their money all year in order to lie in the sun two weeks.

Getty Museum · 1957

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Milwaukee citizens cheer the "Braves," their adored team.

Getty Museum · 1957

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New York City's Garment Center Near 7th Avenue. "This is the center of the world, mass-produced, all wrapped up and delivered."

Getty Museum · 1957

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New York is the melting pot of America, filled with Puerto-Ricans, immigrants from Europe as well as the cheerful Irish.

Getty Museum · 1957

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New York's tough Eastside quarter. "There is a new vitality here. These boys are first generation Americans, sons of European immigrants."

Getty Museum · 1957

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Palm Beach, Florida - "This is the neighborhood of the Woolworths and the Fords. It is very depressing, you never see anyone but gardeners and a few dogs."

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Paris, 1932]

Getty Museum · 1932

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Prayer before dinner at the 50th anniversary of the fall of Battan and Corregidor. Washington Congressmen respect and fear the political power of the large war-veteran groups.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[Quai de Javel, Paris]

Getty Museum · negative 1932; print about 1935

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Quick Eating And Prolonged Shopping - American's prefer to "grab" a sandwich, gobbling it down with a glass of milk or coffee rather than take the European's traditional two-hour lunch.

Getty Museum · 1957

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Religion Is Social And Well Organized - there is a community feeling of meet your neighbor. Housewives in particular are active participants in all church organizations, such as fetes for raising money, singing in the choir.

Getty Museum · 1957

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[River Landscape]

Getty Museum · 1967

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Selling potholders for the benefit of the Salvation Army. The charity bazaar also featured strolling musicians and a Brazilian-style barbecue.

Getty Museum · 1957

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Seville, Spain

Getty Museum · negative 1933; print about 1935

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