Train Stop, Soviet Union, 1954

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.9 × 17 cm (9 13/16 × 6 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2012.118.24

Artists / Makers

Henri Cartier-Bresson (artist) French, 1908 - 2004

Magnum Photos (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in blue pencil: At train stop man / wearing pajamas or / traveling costume / ignores girls / selling food; stamped, center, in blue ink: PLEASE CREDIT / HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (Magnum) / Magnum Photos Inc. / 17 East 64th Street / New York 21, N. Y. / PHOTOS MUST NOT BE ALTERED BY TRIMMING; stamped lower center in red ink: USED IN LIFE JAN 31 1955; additional stamps from LIFE Magazine and other editorial and archival marks by unknown hand

Provenance

(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT, purchased 2002; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.

Bibliography

1955: Cartier-Bresson, Henri. “The People of Russia, Part Two: Travel in the U.S.S.R.” Life (31 January 1955): 84.