Henri Cartier-Bresson and Italy
14 February – 2 June 2025
After the exhibitions dedicated to great masters of Italian and international photography such as Tina Modotti and Mimmo Jodice, CAMERA is happy to open the next exhibition season with Henri Cartier-Bresson and Italy, which will be open from 14 February to 2 June 2025.
The exhibition is the most important monographic exhibition ever realised focusing on the long relationship between the French master and Italy.
For the first time, the relationship between the man who has been defined as ‘the eye of the century’ and Italy, a country he loved deeply, especially for its lively street life, which offered him the opportunity to capture those ‘decisive moments’ that made his work famous, is documented in an exhaustive and in-depth manner.
Through approximately 200 vintage photographs and several documents – newspapers, magazines, volumes -, the exhibition traces the stages of a relationship that began in the 1930s and continued until the moment when Cartier-Bresson abandoned photography in the 1970s.
The exhibition, promoted by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo, is realised thanks to the collaboration between Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris and Fondazione CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la fotografia in Turin, with the curatorship of Clément Chéroux and Walter Guadagnini, directors of the respective Foundations.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue published by Dario Cimorelli Editore.