Easter Sunday in Harlem, New York

Henri Cartier-Bresson · 1947

This is Easter Sunday in Harlem, New York — a photograph by the French artist Henri Cartier-Bresson, nineteen forty-seven. The piece is gelatin silver print, printed nineteen sixty-three, about 36 by 25 centimeters. In the picture, look for the mother and child. Cartier-Bresson was part of the humanistic photography movement.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 1963 · Dimensions 14 1/16 × 9 13/16" (35.7 × 24.9 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 510: Orphanage Jazz Band, Harlem, The Heiress

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Fro Fro, Two in One Piko, Untitled, Frida Kahlo, Brush Eko Bridge, Handsplay, Paris

More by Henri Cartier-Bresson here: Lincoln Kirstein