Five French Photographers

Summary information

Date

Tue Dec 18 1951 until Sun Feb 24 1952

Location

MoMA ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
11 West 53rd St. ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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1951

1952

October 1951

November 1951

December 1951

January 1952

February 1952

March 1952

April 1952

May 1952

Five French Photographers

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

Henri Matisse

Good Design

Christmas Photographs

Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for Johnson's Wax

Masterworks Acquired through the Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund

Odilon Redon: Drawings and Lithographs

Picasso: His Graphic Art

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1951-11	1952-01	Henri Matisse
3	1951-11	1952-01	Good Design
4	1951-11	1952-01	Christmas Photographs
5	1951-12	1952-01	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
6	1952-01	1952-03	Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for Johnson's Wax
7	1952-01	1952-03	Masterworks Acquired through the Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
8	1952-02	1952-04	Odilon Redon: Drawings and Lithographs
9	1952-02	1952-04	Picasso: His Graphic Art

Artists

There were 5 persons who influenced this exhibition.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Biographical statement French, 1908–2004

Born 1908 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 2004

Nationality French

Gender Male

External information resources for Henri Cartier-Bresson

Exhibitions

In this dataset, Henri Cartier-Bresson was involved in 64 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 2000s with 13 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1930s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1937-03	1937-04	MoMA	Photography 1839–1937

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1940-12	1941-01	MoMA	Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics
2	1943-08	1943-09	MoMA	Action Photography
3	1943-11	1943-12	MoMA	Portraits
4	1944-05	1944-09	MoMA	Photography
5	1945-06	1946-06	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Photographs
6	1947-02	1947-04	MoMA	The Photographs of Henri Cartier Bresson
7	1948-04	1948-07	MoMA	In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography
8	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-05	1950-07	MoMA	Color Photography
2	1951-05	1951-07	MoMA	Abstraction in Photography
3	1951-07	1951-08	MoMA	12 Photographers
4	1951-11	1951-12	MoMA	Memorable Life Photographs
5	1951-12	1952-02	MoMA	Five French Photographers
6	1953-05	1953-08	MoMA	Postwar European Photography
7	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man
8	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
9	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-05	1960-09	MoMA	Portraits from the Museum Collection
2	1960-10	1960-10	MoMA	Photographs for Collectors
3	1962-04	1962-05	MoMA	50 Photographs by 50 Photographers
4	1963-02		MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space IV
5	1964-05	1964-08	MoMA	The Photographer's Eye
6	1964-05		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center
7	1965-03	1965-05	MoMA	The Photo Essay
8	1967-10		MoMA	Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
9	1968-02	1968-03	MoMA	Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition
10	1968-06	1968-09	MoMA	Cartier-Bresson
11	1969-07	1969-09	MoMA	Portrait Photographs

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-09	1971-11	MoMA	Photographs of Women
2	1974-09	1974-12	MoMA	Public Landscapes
3	1977-04	1977-06	MoMA	Artists by Artists
4	1979-12		MoMA	Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10		MoMA	Reinstallation of the Collection
2	1981-10	1982-01	MoMA	Still Life
3	1985-12	1986-03	MoMA	Variants
4	1987-09	1987-11	MoMA	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-02	1990-05	MoMA	Photography Until Now
2	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
3	1993-04	1993-07	MoMA	Dada and Surrealism: Selections from the Collection
4	1994-01	1994-04	MoMA	Gesture and Pose: Twentieth-Century Photographs from the Collection
5	1995-01	1995-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Photography
6	1999-03	1999-06	MoMA	The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect
7	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Actors, Dancers, Bathers
8	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Posed to unposed: Encounters with the Camera

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked
2	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Seeing Double
3	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	The Rhetoric of Persuasion
4	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	The Observer: Cartier-Bresson After the War
5	2000-11	2001-01	MoMA	The Path of Resistance
6	2002-02	2002-05	MoMA	Life of the City
7	2004-11	2005-06	MoMA	Photography: Inaugural Installation
8	2005-10	2005-12	MoMA PS1	Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert
9	2006-03	2006-11	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 3
10	2006-12	2007-07	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 4
11	2008-10	2009-07	MoMA	The Printed Picture
12	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009
13	2009-08	2010-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 6

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-04	2010-06	MoMA	Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
2	2010-08	2010-11	MoMA	The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
3	2011-01	2011-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2011
4	2011-05	2012-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation
5	2012-04		MoMA	The Shaping of New Visions: Photograph, Film, Photobook
6	2012-11	2013-07	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Trisha Donnelly

Robert Doisneau

Biographical statement French, 1912–1994

Born 1912 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1994

Nationality French

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Robert Doisneau was involved in 14 exhibitions across 6 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 5 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1980s,2010s with 1 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1951-12	1952-02	MoMA	Five French Photographers
2	1953-05	1953-08	MoMA	Postwar European Photography
3	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man
4	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
5	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1964-05	1964-08	MoMA	The Photographer's Eye
2	1967-10		MoMA	Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1971-09	1971-11	MoMA	Photographs of Women
2	1976-03	1976-06	MoMA	Photography for Collectors
3	1977-04	1977-06	MoMA	Artists by Artists

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1985-12	1986-03	MoMA	Variants

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2005-10	2005-12	MoMA PS1	Woman of Many Faces: Isabelle Huppert
2	2006-03	2006-11	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation 3

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2011-05	2012-03	MoMA	Photography Collection: Rotation

Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

Izis

Biographical statement French, 1911–1980

Born 1911 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1980

Nationality French

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Izis was involved in 6 exhibitions across 2 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 4 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1960s with 2 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1951-12	1952-02	MoMA	Five French Photographers
2	1953-05	1953-08	MoMA	Postwar European Photography
3	1958-11	1959-01	MoMA	Photographs from the Museum Collection
4	1959-11	1959-11	MoMA	30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-11	1962-03	MoMA	Towards the "New" Museum of Modern Art: A Bid for Space, Part II
2	1965-03	1965-05	MoMA	The Photo Essay

Willy Ronis

Biographical statement French, 1910–2009

Born 1910 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 2009

Nationality French

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Willy Ronis was involved in 3 exhibitions across 1 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 3 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 1950s with 3 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1951-12	1952-02	MoMA	Five French Photographers
2	1953-05	1953-08	MoMA	Postwar European Photography
3	1955-01	1955-05	MoMA	The Family of Man

Five French Photographers

Summary information

Date

Location

Carried out by

Concurrent exhibitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

MoMA

Artists

C

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Exhibitions

1930s (1)

1940s (8)

1950s (9)

1960s (11)

1970s (4)

1980s (4)

1990s (8)

2000s (13)

2010s (6)

D

Robert Doisneau

Exhibitions

1950s (5)

1960s (2)

1970s (3)

1980s (1)

2000s (2)

2010s (1)

H

I

Izis

Exhibitions

1950s (4)

1960s (2)

R

Willy Ronis

Exhibitions

1950s (3)

Acknowledgements