Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation

The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (French: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson), also known as Fondation HCB, is an art gallery and non-profit organisation in Paris that was established to preserve and show the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck, and show the work of others. It was set up in 2003 by the photographer and painter Cartier-Bresson, his wife, also a photographer, Franck, and their daughter, Mélanie Cartier-Bresson.

Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Location within Paris
Established2003 (2003)
LocationRue des Archives, 75003 Paris
Coordinates48.8629°N 2.36009°E / 48.8629; 2.36009
TypeArt museum
CollectionsHenri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck
FounderHenri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Mélanie Cartier-Bresson
DirectorFrançois Hébel[1]
Websitewww.henricartierbresson.org/en/

The Foundation hosts four solo exhibitions per year by a variety of photographers, painters, sculptors, and illustrators, and a changing exhibition of Cartier-Bresson's own work all the time. Agnès Sire is its artistic director and François Hébel its director.[2][3]

Mission

The Foundation's mission is to preserve the archives of Henri Cartier-Bresson[4] and Martine Franck, and show their work and the work of others.[5][6] It also exists to help researchers and curators to work with those archives.[5]

Exhibitions

The Foundation hosts four solo exhibitions per year by a variety of photographers, painters, sculptors, and illustrators,[5] and a changing exhibition of Cartier-Bresson's own work all the time.[2]

The inaugural exhibition at the Rue des Archives venue, in November 2018, was Martine Franck – A Retrospective, which then toured to Musée de l'Élysée in Switzerland, and Fotomuseum Antwerp in Belgium.[7][8][9][10]

Archive

Cartier-Bresson and Franck's archives consist of over 50,000 prints and 200,000 negatives,[11] as well as all kinds of documents.[12] Prior to 2018, the archives were scattered over four sites,[13] but since then they have all been housed in the new building.[11]

History

The Foundation was set up by Cartier-Bresson, Franck and Mélanie Cartier-Bresson.[4] Cartier-Bresson gave his personal collection of his photographs to the Foundation.[4] It opened in 2003 in a renovated 19th-century building at 2 Impasse Lebouis in the Montparnasse district of Paris.[2][4] Between 2003 and 2018 it had 100,000 visitors a year.[6]

The Foundation's former building at Impasse Lebouis

In November 2018 it moved to 79 Rue des Archives, in the Marais district of Paris;[6][14] a tall, narrow atelier in a 1913 building.[15] The new building has significantly more exhibition and archive space than the previous, allowing for four exhibitions a year instead of three.[2] The new venue also allows, for the first time, to have Cartier-Bresson's own work always on display.[2]

Organisation

The non-profit Foundation is privately funded.[5] A proportion of funds come from an endowment left by Franck, who died in 2012.[2]

From 2003 Agnès Sire was its director.[16] In November 2017 Sire became artistic director and François Hébel was appointed as director.[2][16][17]

HCB Award

The Foundation issues the HCB Award.[5][18]

References
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  2. Nayeri, Farah (25 October 2018). "A New Home for the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  3. "Team". Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  4. Riding, Alan (27 May 2003). "An Instinct For Decisive Moments; A Show and a Foundation Honor Cartier-Bresson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  5. "Fondation HCB moves to a larger new home in Le Marais, Paris". British Journal of Photography. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  6. "Paris : Cartier-Bresson a une fondation flambant neuve dans le Marais". Le Parisien. 5 November 2018. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  7. Harris, Gareth (2 November 2018). "Martine Franck comes out of the shadows at Fondation Cartier-Bresson". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  8. "Martine Franck comes under the spotlight at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson". Wallpaper*. 22 November 2018. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  9. Grey, Tobias (9 October 2018). "Martine Franck's Photography Will Open New Paris Gallery Named for Henri Cartier-Bresson". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  10. "Martine Franck comes into focus at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson's new Paris space". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  11. Sayej, Nadja. "Paris's Newest Major Museum Is Dedicated to Henri Cartier-Bresson". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  12. "La Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson va s'agrandir en 2018". www.artnewspaper.fr. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  13. agence, A. F. P. (6 November 2018). "La Fondation Cartier-Bresson s'implante dans le Marais à Paris". Le Figaro.fr. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  14. "Henri Cartier-Bresson foundation to open bigger space in 2018". www.theartnewspaper.com. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  15. "Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson". Time Out Paris. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  16. "François Hébel remplace Agnès Sire à la direction de la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson - 2 novembre 2017 - lejournaldesarts.fr". Le Journal Des Arts. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  17. "François Hebel devient le directeur de la Fondation Henri-Cartier Bresson". Libération.fr. Retrieved 2020-09-23.
  18. "HCB Award". Retrieved 2020-10-14.
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