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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)

Games in a Refugee Camp, India, 1947

Closed5 October 2012

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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Games in a Refugee Camp, India, 1947
gelatin silver print, printed 1967
signed and inscribed 'merci Voja' in ink (in the margin)
image: 12 x 17¾in. (30.4 x 45.2cm.)
sheet: 16 x 20in. (40.5 x 50.8cm.)

From the artist;
to Voja Mitrovic, master printer for Cartier-Bresson;
to Peter Turnley

Specialist note

'Punjab, India, 1947. There is an idleness and despair where people are gathered without homes. At Kurukshetva camp, where there were 300,000 people, they were given simple gymnastics to distract them, to work their energies.' (The Decisive Moment)