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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Lot 12

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)

Independence Day, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1947

Closed21 May 2010

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GBP 10,625

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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Independence Day, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1947
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed no later than 1956
19 3/8 x 12¾ in. (50.5 x 22.4 cm.)

Specialist note

On the caption notes in the Magnum files, Cartier-Bresson wrote about this photograph: 'This woman explained to me that the flagpole over her door was broken but "on such a day as this, one keeps one's flag on one's heart." I felt in her a touch of the strength and robustness of the early American pioneers.'