The Club and the Harvard Art Museum are also pleased to invite you to join Harvard Art Museum photography curator Deborah Martin Kao for an aperitif and private viewing of Henri Cartier-Bresson / Walker Evans, Photographing America, 1929-1947. This will take place at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. Welcoming us will be Foundation director and exhibit curator Agnès Sire.
Many may remember the lectures by Harvard Prof. Robert Coles responding to Walker Evans’ portraits.
This exhibit illustrates the “dialogue” between the American Evans (1903-1975), “master of head-on documentary” and the French Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), “virtuoso of the decisive moment and geometry” who each “marked the 20th century” (C. Guillot, Le Monde, 25.09.08).
Deborah Martin Kao will help us to look deeply at these photos and will comment on Walker Evans and Cartier-Bresson’s connection to the Fogg Museum. By participating in this private viewing Club members will have a taste of future activities should the Harvard Art Museum Fellows program take root in Paris.
