Henri Cartier-Bresson
In a Deportee Camp, a Gestapo Informer is Recognized by a Woman She Has Denounced, Dessau, Germany

In a Deportee Camp, a Gestapo Informer is Recognized by a Woman She Has Denounced,  Dessau, Germany

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In a Deportee Camp, a Gestapo Informer is Recognized by a Woman She Has Denounced, Dessau, Germany
In a Deportee Camp, a Gestapo Informer is Recognized by a Woman She Has Denounced,  Dessau, Germany
CultureFrench
Titles
  • In a Deportee Camp, a Gestapo Informer is Recognized by a Woman She Has Denounced, Dessau, Germany
Date1945, printed 1980
PlaceDessau, Germany
(not assigned)Dessau, Germany
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 14 1/4 in. (24.1 × 36.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 16 1/8 in. (30.5 × 41 cm)
Frame (outer): 18 3/8 × 22 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (46.7 × 56.9 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Michael and Patti Morgan Philanthropic Fund of the Greater Houston Community Foundation, Leland and Carolyn Putterman, Howard and Beverly Robinson, Russ and Leslie Robinson, and Stuart and Jane Weil
Object number2005.363
Non exposé

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Department
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Special Collections
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil on verso lower center: "HCB/1309"
Marked in ink, lower right below image: "Henri Cartier-Bresson"
Embossed stamp in the margin, lower left below image: "© HENRI / CARTIER / BRESSON"

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