End of an Era

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Research Article| December 28 2020 End of an Era: Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s Cartier-Bresson Exhibition Spotlights Decisive Historical Moment James Baron James Baron James Baron is a freelance writer and journalist based in Taipei. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2020) 47 (4): 3–15. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.47.4.3 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation James Baron; End of an Era: Taipei Fine Arts Museum’s Cartier-Bresson Exhibition Spotlights Decisive Historical Moment. Afterimage 28 December 2020; 47 (4): 3–15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2020.47.4.3 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Rather than the standard thousand words, a picture, according to a recent social media meme, is now worth a mere two hundred—such is the state of the global economy. In reality, financial turmoil furnishes fine canvas for a master picture-maker. Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ten months in China between December 1948 and September 1949 demonstrated this. The images captured during his improvised assignments for Life magazine helped to cement his reputation as the world’s greatest photographer. Featuring an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre, a selection of these images was published by Cartier-Bresson’s friend Robert Delpire in 1954, under the title D’une Chine à l’autre (From One China to Another). With the release of the collection Henri Cartier-Bresson: China 1948–1949/1958 in late 2019, followed by an exhibition of the same name at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM) that ran from June 20 to November 1, 2020, this body of work has been reexamined alongside... You do not currently have access to this content.