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Berv","markings":null,"inscribed":"Inscribed in ink, verso lower left and right corners: ID #152210 / 152210.","signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":"© Henri Cartier-Bresson/Magnum Photos, courtesy Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris","restrictions":"Restricted","nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"1977-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Valencia","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[{"id":6315,"displayname":"Henri Cartier-Bresson","displaydate":"1908–2004; born Chanteloup, France; died Cereste, France","datebegin":1908,"dateend":2004,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908–2004; born Chanteloup, France; died Cereste, France","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nThe tentative contact that this boy makes with the disfigured wall beside him has led many to read Valencia as a portrait of a boy isolated by blindness; however, Cartier-Bresson later explained that the child was simply watching a rubber ball that had bounced beyond view of the camera. In his landmark book Images à la Sauvette, later titled The Decisive Moment, the artist presented a mode of photography that uncannily captured spontaneous yet perfectly harmonious instances of movement and interaction. A more literal translation of the book’s title, \"images on the sly,\" underscores the artist’s emphasis on orchestrating visual and poetic coherence out of real-world events. ","remarks":"Franz History of Photography Rotation July 2017"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"Cartier-Bresson’s infl uential book of hand-held camera exposures, Images à la sauvette (1952), was translated into English as The Decisive Moment. A more literal rendering, “images on the wing,” is truer to the artist’s emphasis, which stressed the visual and poetic coherence of his pictures rather than their adherence to real-world events. The tentative contact between this boy and the disfi gured wall beside him leads many to read Valencia as the portrait of a boy isolated by blindness, but Cartier-Bresson later explained that the child was simply watching a rubber ball that had bounced beyond view of the camera.","remarks":"The Life and Death of Buildings"}],"media":[{"id":43625,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1977-76","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":"Restricted","caption":"Bruce White Photography"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977,\" Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1977,\" Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 37, no. 1 (1978): p. 28-40., p. 38","date":1978,"id":3354,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774515"},{"boilertext":"Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment (New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Éditions Verve of Paris, 1952).","citation":"Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Decisive Moment (New York: Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Éditions Verve of Paris, 1952)., plate 12","date":1952,"id":5362,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/6557867"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1374,"citation":"The Life and Death of Buildings (July 23–November 6, 2011)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2011-07-23","enddate":"2011-11-06","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1374"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place depicted: Europe, Spain, Valencia","code":"Place depicted","continent":"Europe","subcontinent":null,"country":"Spain","region":null,"state":null,"city":"Valencia","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":null,"locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/6362115/valencia.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2088258,"term":"boys","aatid":300247598,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2031609,"term":"French","aatid":300111188,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2110200,"term":"walls","aatid":300002469,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053728,"term":"black-and-white photographs","aatid":300128347,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2053541,"term":"gelatin silver prints","aatid":300128695,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2053200,"term":"photographs","aatid":300046300,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2119376,"term":"cities","aatid":300008389,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2154022,"term":"gelatin silver process","aatid":300139114,"termtype":"Techniques"}],"classifications":[{"id":2053541,"classification":"gelatin silver prints"},{"id":2053728,"classification":"black-and-white photographs"},{"id":2053200,"classification":"photographs"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031609,"culture":"French"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199326,"term":"Photography","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"sheet","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"34.10"},{"element":"sheet","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"50.70"},{"element":"image","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"33.20"},{"element":"image","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"49.80"}],"packages":[{"packageid":183111,"name":"Photo_remainder"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/x1977-76"],"displaymaker":"Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908–2004; born Chanteloup, France; died Cereste, France","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004; born Chanteloup, France; died Cereste, France), Valencia, 1933, printed later. 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