Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation

About

The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (French: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson), also known as Fondation HCB, is an art gallery and non-profit organization 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 his director.

Mission: The Foundation's mission is to preserve the archives of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck, and show their work and the work of others. It also exists to help researchers and curators to work with these archives.

Exhibitions: The Foundation hosts four solo exhibitions per year by a variety of photographers, painters, sculptors, and illustrators. The inaugural exhibition at the Rue des Archives venir, in November 2018, was Martine Franck – A Retrospective, which then toured to Musée de l'Élysée in Switzerland, and Fotomuseum Antwerp in...