Lot no. 2020
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Gestapo Informer, Dessau
1945
Vintage. Gelatin silver print
In the sheet margin numerical notations and markings with black wax crayon. On the reverse photographer's copyright stamp: „REPRODUCE ONLY ON CONDITIONS: (1) CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (2) PHOTOGRAPH MUST NOT BE ALTERED BY TRIMMING" as well as a strip of paper with typewritten script: „IN DESSAU, GERMANY, AMONG LIBERATED D.P. 'S GOING HOME at INFORMER OF THE GESTAPO TRIED TO SLIP AMONG THEM. SHE IS EXPOSED BY A FORCED LABOR WOMAN SHE HAD INFORMED UPON in BERLIN [...]". Exhibition stamp: „Photographs By HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 St., New York". Publication stamp: „USED IN TIME", date stamp: „FEB 17 1947" and further stamp: „HOLD FOR FILE TIME". Inscribed and numbered by various hands in pencil, red and blue crayon
6 5/8 × 9 5/8 in. (8 1/8 × 10 in.)
With light handling marks
TIME, Vol. XLIX, No. 7 (February 17), 1947, p. 50 (there caption: Gestapo Informer, 'Human faces are such a world!') / Exh. cat.: The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. New York, MoMA, 1947, p. 31 (there caption: Exposing a stool-pigeon in a displaced person camp, Dessau, Germany) / Henri Cartier-Bresson: The decisive moment. New York 1952, pl. 34 / Henri Cartier-Bresson: Meisteraufnahmen. Zurich 1964, pl. 36 / Jean-Pierre Montier (ed.): Henri Cartier-Bresson. Seine Kunst – Sein Leben. Munich 1997, p. 158, ill. 151 / Exh. cat.: ,Wer sind sie, Henri Cartier-Bresson?‘ Das Lebenswerk in 602 Bildern. Paris, Fondation Cartier-Bresson, 2003, p. 78, ill. 79 (there caption: Bei der Befreiung des Internierungslagers erkennt eine Frau eine Denunziantin der Gestapo wieder, die sie verraten hatte, Dessau) / Exh. cat.: Le Scrapbook d' Henri Cartier-Bresson. Paris, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2006, p. 228, ill. 288 / Exh. cat.: Dessau 1945 - Moderne zerstört. Mit Fotografien von Henri Cartier-Bresson. Dessau, Stiftung Bauhaus, 2014, p. 333 / Henri Cartier-Bresson: Die Photographien. Die vom Künstler selbst ausgewählten Hauptwerke aus den Jahren 1929 bis 1979 Munich 2016, p. 151
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947 to LIFE Magazine / The LIFE Picture Collection
Pictures credits: Contact organization
Photographs and film
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