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Artist |
Cartier-Bresson, Henri |
Title |
Knoxville, Tennessee |
Medium |
Gelatin silver print |
Date |
1947 |
Description |
Henri Cartier-Bresson (Chanteloup-en-Brie, France 1908-2004 Céreste, France) Knoxville, Tennessee, 1947 Gelatin silver print 12 x 16 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2019 purchase with funds provided by June and Rob Heller, Jim Martin, James L. Clayton, Hei Park, John Cotham, Jayne and Myron Ely, Dorothy and Caesar Stair, Ebbie Sandberg, John Trotter, KMA Guild, Mardel Fehrenbach, Kitsy and Louis Hartley, Sylvia and Jan Peters, Mary Rayson, Alexandra Rosen, John Z.C. Thomas, and Lisa Carroll Henri Cartier-Bresson is internationally known as a pioneer of candid or "street" photography, an important 20th-century movement made possible by the development of small portable cameras and high speed film that enabled artists to capture fleeting moments in everyday life as they unfolded. He constantly sought to record what he called "the decisive moment," one in which key visual and psychological elements during the course of daily human life briefly and perfectly align to express the essence of a certain situation. Cartier-Bresson is often noted for his interest in presenting human subjects amid settings in ways that provoke questions about behavior and social patterns. Taken along Market Square in downtown Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1947 depicts a fashionable woman apparently recovering from an eye procedure. Glamorously attired, she appears conspicuously out of place in the driver's seat of an old weather-beaten pickup truck. |
Catalog Number |
2019.02.01 |
Search Terms |
Silver gelatin prints Gelatin silver prints Prints Black & white photographs Automobiles Women |
Credit line |
purchase with funds provided by June and Rob Heller, Jim Martin, James L. Clayton, Hei Park, John Cotham, Jayne and Myron Ely, Dorothy and Caesar Stair, Ebbie Sandberg, John Trotter, KMA Guild, Mardel Fehrenbach, Kitsy and Louis Hartley, Sylvia and Jan Peters, Mary Rayson, Alexandra Rosen, John Z.C. Thomas, and Lisa Carroll |