Henri Cartier-Bresson
2217 Avenue D, 1858, built as an interim plant for the Galveston News, known more recently as Henry's Bookstore

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Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908–2004)French, 1908–2004

CultureFrench

Titles

2217 Avenue D, 1858, built as an interim plant for the Galveston News, known more recently as Henry's Bookstore
from the series The Galveston That Was

Date1962

Place depictedGalveston, Texas, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 11 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (30.3 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 12 3/4 × 9 7/16 in. (32.4 × 24 cm)

Credit LineMuseum commission

Object number65.222

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: " The Galveston That Was," Centre on the Strand, Galveston, TX, Sep 21 - Dec 15 1971 (LN:71.10)

Exhibited: "Victorian Galveston: An Architectural Portrait," Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Nov 29, 1990 - Jan 14, 1991 (LN:90.30)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed on verso, upper left corner in pencil: "43" [x'd out in green pencil], center: "7715-22", "76 ½", in red pencil: "30" [circled], in green pencil: "p. 69"
recto top left in pencil "30", erased crop marks

On verso: brown stamp in outlined box: "Photograph by/Henri Cartier-Bresson/©1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS/15 West 47th Street, N.Y.C. 36". Red stamp: "N.Y. Times / Book Review // __ cols. ____" [the following information was penciled in: "# / p-58 / 3 5/8 x 5 9/16"]

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