By Henri Cartier-Bresson
7 – 29 June
The Arts House
10am – 8pm
Free admission

In 1932, at the age of twenty-four, Henri Cartier-Bresson acquired a hand held Leica camera and his previously casual interest in photography became a passion. Over the next three years he created one of the most original and influential bodies of work in the history of photography. With his famous Leïca, Henri Cartier-Bresson adapted the surrealists’ automatic writing to photography, “Photography”, he says, “is to put the head, the eye, and the heart in one single line. Photography is a way of life”. His work elevates the apparently banal, revealing its universal aspects and dimensions. The exhibition presents 85 prints from Cartier-Bresson’s Early Works shot in Europe, Mexico, USA and Africa.