About the Artwork
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare is one of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s earliest images made with a handheld Leica, a small 35mm camera that allows rapid photography. Outside the train station in Paris, Cartier-Bresson saw the reflection in a large puddle and waited for the right passerby. The result is full of surrealist touches: the doubled image, the pun on the word “rail” in the poster, and the leaping figure in the poster echoing the ordinary man.
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare
1932, printed 1970s
Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908-2004
French
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 14 1/8 × 9 5/8 inches (35.9 × 24.4 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 × 11 7/8 inches (40.3 × 30.2 cm)
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Museum Purchase, Forum for Prints, Drawings and Photographs Purchase Fund in honor of Michelle Andonian
2013.45
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2013-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, 1932, printed 1970s, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, Forum for Prints, Drawings and Photographs Purchase Fund in honor of Michelle Andonian, 2013.45.
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