Two Solar Systems
Two Solar Systems
November 4, 2022
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Liverpool, October 1962
© Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
In ‘Reconciliation’, original prints by Cartier-Bresson and the photographs he took for the 1962 film ‘Stop Laughing – This is Britain’ (which will be screened at the exhibition) are juxtaposed with Martin Parr’s ‘The Last Resort’ (published in 1986) as well as his more recent commission, ‘Black Country Stories’ – which sees the artist retrace his steps in Northern England to photograph his fellow Brits at work and at play.
The exhibition – which is on show at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation from November 8, 2022, to February 12, 2023 – presents two perspectives on a society and its transformation across three different eras (1962, 1986, 2010). In the words of Cartier-Bresson: “England is the most exotic place in the world.”
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, Liverpool, October 1962
© Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Usine de confection Burton, Manchester, October 1962
© Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
Martin Parr, Hair salon, Wolverhampton, 2012
© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos
Martin Parr, Blackpool, 1993
© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos