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Subject: RE: [Leica] HCB to open foundation
From: "Wesson, Leo W" <LWWesson@pier1.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:39:25 -0600

Old but good article about HCB

Leo Wesson

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> From: 	Noel Charchuk
> Reply To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Sent: 	Tuesday, February 4, 2003 2:33 PM
> To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: 	[Leica] HCB to open foundation
> 
> Foundation marks another decisive moment for HCB
> 
> Henri Cartier-Bresson probably the world's most celebrated living
> photographer, is to open a foundation dedicated to his life's work.
> 
> Located in a five-storey building in the Montparnasse district of Paris,
> the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation will house and make accessible an
> archive of the 94-year-old's artwork, and will stage exhibitions,
> together with a programme of events. "We have wanted to do this for
> quite some time," says his wife, the photographer Martine Franck. "We
> set up this institution to prevent the dispersal of Cartier-Bresson's
> work. However, it is not a museum or a mausoleum, we want it to be open
> to everybody; photographers, artists, architects and film makers.'
> 
> 
> From the British Journal of Photography online, thought the group may be interested.
> 
> Noel
> 
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