{"data": {"id": 161725, "accession_number": "2000.82", "share_license_status": "Copyrighted", "tombstone": "Circus Side Show, Beaumont, Texas, 1962. Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908\u20132004). Gelatin silver print; image: 29.5 x 19.5 cm (11 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.); mounted: 48.4 x 34.9 cm (19 1/16 x 13 3/4 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2000.82. \u00a9 Henri Cartier-Bresson", "current_location": null, "title": "Circus Side Show, Beaumont, Texas", "creation_date": "1962", "creation_date_earliest": 1962, "creation_date_latest": 1962, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["France, 20th century"], "technique": "gelatin silver print", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "PH - French 20th Century", "type": "Photograph", "measurements": "Image: 29.5 x 19.5 cm (11 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.); Mounted: 48.4 x 34.9 cm (19 1/16 x 13 3/4 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)", "dimensions": {"image": {"height": 0.295, "height_inch": 11, "height_inch_fraction": 0.625, "width": 0.195, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875}, "mounted": {"height": 0.484, "height_inch": 19, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.349, "width_inch": 13, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75}, "matted": {"height": 0.508, "height_inch": 20, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.406, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": "\u00a9 Henri Cartier-Bresson", "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "written in ink on verso: \"Henri a Lincoln/ avec mon amitie\"; stamped: \"Henri Cartier-Bresson/ \u00a91962 MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHS/ MAGNUM COURTESY PRINT/ NOT FOR REPRODUCTION\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 184340, "title": "Looking at Children:  Photographs from the Permanent Collection", "description": "<i>Looking at Children:  Photographs from the Permanent Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 20-December 4, 2002).", "opening_date": "2002-07-20T00:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "CMA, July 20 - December 4, 2002; \"Looking at Children\".  No catalog", "opening_date": "2002-07-20T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Henri-Cartier Bresson is recognized for his ability to capture the \"decisive moment\" in candid pictures of people and events around the world. Initially visiting the United States in 1935, he returned to photograph on and off for some three decades. His subjects were mostly people and he especially focused on immigrants and blacks/African Americans. This image exemplfies Cartier-Bresson's ability to capture the moment when all the pictorial elements are tightly composed and at the psychological peak of action. Here he examines the racial issues and social mores in southeast Texas in the early 1960s with his poignant vignette of two young boys\u2014one black and one white\u2014briefly pausing in their exploration of the circus's midway.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79984829"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.82", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 161725, "creators": [{"id": 77, "description": "Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908\u20132004)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Henri Cartier-Bresson French, 1908-2004\r\n\r\nHenri Cartier-Bresson (born in Chanteloup) has achieved fame for his work as a pioneering photojournalist and for his ability to capture the \"decisive moment\" in candid images of people and events around the world. After studying painting in the 1920s (including one year with cubist Andr\u00e9 Lhote), Cartier-Bresson became interested in photography while recuperating from illness in 1930-31. Working first with a box camera and then with a 35mm Leica camera, he began to take pictures for magazines and newspapers. In the early 1930s his photographs were featured in exhibitions at the Julian Levy Gallery in New York and the Club Atheneo in Madrid. During this period he traveled and photographed in France, Italy, Spain, Morocco, and Mexico.\r\n\tIn 1935 Cartier-Bresson studied cinematography with Paul Strand in New York City, returning to France the following year to work as an assistant on Jean Renoir's films La vie est \u00e0 nous and Une partie de campagne. In 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, Cartier-Bresson made Victorie de la vie, a film documenting conditions in Spanish hospitals. Three years later, while serving in the French army during World War II, he was captured by the Germans. He escaped from prison in 1943 and joined the French resistance. Following the war his work was featured in a major one-artist exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1946), and in 1947 he joined Ropert Capa, George Rodger, and David Seymour in founding magnum Photos, the well-known cooperative agency for photojournalism.\r\n\tOver the next two decades Cartier-Bresson traveled the world as a freelance photojournalist. His work appeared in a number of exhibitions during this time (Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs, Paris, International Center of Photography, New York, and others) as well as in numerous magazine articles and more than a dozen books, including Images \u00e0 la sauvette (The Decisive Moment, 1952), D'une Chine \u00e0 l'autre (1954; From One China to Another, U.S. publication, 1956), Les Europ\u00e9ens (The Europeans, 1955), Mouscou, vu par Henri Cartier-Bresson (People of Moscow, 1955), and the Face of Asia (1972). In 1966 Cartier-Bresson left magnum, retiring from photojournalism to concentrate on his drawing. M.M.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1908", "death_year": "2004", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2000-09-18T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1962, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1962", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:52:20.129000"}}