". . . I was in love with New York. I do not mean ‘love’ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love with the city, the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again."
—Joan Didion
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  Mora, Henri Cartier-Bresson: America In Passing, p. 144
- Artist Biography
  Henri Cartier-Bresson
  French • 1908 - 2004
  Candidly capturing fleeting moments of beauty among the seemingly ordinary happenings of daily life, Henri Cartier-Bresson's work is intuitive and observational. Initially influenced by the Surrealists' "aimless walks of discovery," he began shooting on his Leica while traveling through Europe in 1932, revealing the hidden drama and idiosyncrasy in the everyday and mundane. The hand-held Leica allowed him ease of movement while attracting minimal notice as he wandered in foreign lands, taking images that matched his bohemian spontaneity with his painterly sense of composition.
  Cartier-Bresson did not plan or arrange his photographs. His practice was to release the shutter at the moment his instincts told him the scene before him was in perfect balance. This he later famously titled "the decisive moment" — a concept that would influence photographers throughout the twentieth century.
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Henri Cartier-Bresson

New Year’s Eve, Times Square, Manhattan

1959
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm)
Signed, inscribed in ink and copyright credit blindstamp in the margin.

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$10,000 - 15,000

Sold for $12,600

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Henri Cartier-Bresson
New Year’s Eve, Times Square, Manhattan
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $12,600
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William Klein
Anne St. Marie + Cruiser, New York (Vogue)
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William Klein
Dolores wants a taxi, New York (Vogue)
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Elliott Erwitt
New York City
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Elliott Erwitt
New York City
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William Klein
Atom Bomb Sky, New York
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William Klein
Evelyn, Isabella + Nina + Mirrors, NY roof
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Sabine Weiss
Times Square, New York
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Ted Croner
Home of the Brave
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Bruce Davidson
Brooklyn Gang, New York (stickball players)
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Nat Fein
The Babe Bows Out - Babe Ruth Farewell, June 13
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Todd Webb
The Circle, LaSalle at Amsterdam, New York
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Arthur Leipzig
Chalk Games, New York City
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Helen Levitt
N.Y.C. (children with broken mirror)
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Elliott Erwitt
Third Avenue El., New York City
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Bruce Davidson
Fourth of July fireworks, Coney Island, New York
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Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
Coney Island
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Ted Croner
Central Park South, New York
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Ted Croner
Taxi, New York Night
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Herman Leonard
Ella Fitzgerald with Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman and Richard Rogers, NYC
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Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
Easter Sunday in Harlem
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Alfred Eisenstaedt
Central Park after a snowstorm, New York
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Louis Stettner
Elbowing Out of Town Newsstand, NYC
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Elliott Erwitt
Marilyn Monroe, New York City
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Eve Arnold
Metropolitan Opera, New York City (gala opening)
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Lillian Bassman
Next to Nothing, Model Unknown, New York, Junior Bazaar
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Melvin Sokolsky
Over New York
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Horst P. Horst
Carmen, Face Massage, New York
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Chester Higgins
Muslim Woman, New York City
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Lillian Bassman
The Little Furs, Barbara Mullen, Russian broadtail jacket by Trigère and hat by Lilly Daché, Essex House, New York
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Arnold Newman
Truman Capote, New York City
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Burt Glinn
Andy Warhol with Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein, New York City
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Sabine Weiss
Penn Station, New York
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Harry Callahan
New York
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George Tice
Tenth Avenue Diner, Paterson, New Jersey
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Brett Weston
Washington Square, NYC
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Alfred Stieglitz
The Terminal, 1892; The City of Ambition
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Fred Zinnemann
Manhattan Sunset, November
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