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

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

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

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

World War II in Photographs

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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