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Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Location within Paris
Established	2003 (2003)
Location	Rue des Archives, 75003 Paris
Coordinates	48°51′46″N 2°21′36″E / 48.8629°N 2.36009°E / 48.8629; 2.36009
Type	Art museum
Collections	Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck
Founder	Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Mélanie Cartier-Bresson
Director	François Hébel [1]
Website	www.henricartierbresson.org/en/

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.

The Foundation hosts four solo exhibitions per year by a variety of photographers, painters, sculptors, and illustrators. 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]

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]

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]

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

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The Foundation issues the HCB Award. ^{[5] [18]}

Winners

• 2021: Carolyn Drake for the project Centaur (working title) ^[19]

See also

• List of museums devoted to one photographer

References

External links

• Official website