Rumors & Posthumous

 At some stage around the end of World War 2. 1945-1946. Henri Cartier-Bresson  had  a Mark Twain moment in the United States when Rumors of his Death during the war began to circulate How these rumors started is unknowing.  His film on returning war refugees released in the U.S. In 1947 Prompted a retrospective of his work by the Musem of Modern Art,  New York. Instead of the Posthumous show that had been planed. The show  coincided with the publication of Henri Cartier-Bresson first book. The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The text was written By Lincoln Kirtein and Beaumont Newhall.

Child in Valencia, Spain, 1933

Clildren in Seville, Spain 1933

Cordova, Spain, 1933

Juchitan,Mexico,1934

Gare St. Lazare, Paris, 1932

Hyeres,France, 1932

At the Bullfight in Velencia, Spain, 1933

Visit of George VI of England to Versailles, 1938

Madrid, Spain, 1933

Brussels, Belgium, 1932

Juchitan, Mexico, 1934

Alicante, Spain, 1933

Mexico, D.F. 1934

The Coronation Parade of George VI, Trafalgar Square, london, 1938

Coronation parade of George VI, Trafalgar Square 1938

Mexico D.F.  1934