born on August, the 22nd in Chanteloup, Seine-et-Marne (F),
attends the Lycée Condorcet

studies painting at André Lothe

stays at the Ivory Coast for one year; after his return Henri Cartier-Bresson
takes his first photos; travels through Europe

first exhibitions at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York and ‘Cercle Atheneo’
in Madrid

accompanies an ethnographic expedition to Mexico, where he stays for one year, exhibition of his photos in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico-City

lives in the USA; applies oneself with film introduced by Paul Strand

works as an assistant of production for Jean Renoir

produces a documentary film about the hospitals of the republican Spain
(„Victoire la vie“) and a film about the Secours Rouge International (“L’Espagne vivra”)

gets arrested by the German forces; after two attempts to escape without
avail he manages to escape

joins the MNPGD, a secret aid organisation for captives and refugees; portraits artists and writers, for example Matisse, Bonnard, Braque, Claudel; joins a group of professional photographers in order to document the liberation of Paris; finishes the documentary film about returning captives and deportees “Le retour”

spends more than a year in the USA, also to make up a ‘posthume’ exhibition, which was organised by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, whose people in charge believed that he did not survive the war

founds with Robert Capa, David Seymour and Georges Roger the agency ‘Magnum Photos’

spends three years in the Far East; lives in India, China and Indonesia

lives in Europe; publishes his first book “Images à la Savette” (title of the
American edition: “The Decisive Moment”)

gets the admission to travel in the USSR as first western photographer

travels again to China, stays for three months

photo-reportage in Cuba; travels to Canada

goes to Mexico, stays for four months

spends six months in India and three months in Japan

quits the work with the agency ‘Magnum Photos’, which keeps to distribute his photos

spends a year in France to work for the exhibition “on France”, shown at the Grand Palais, Paris; produces two documentary films for CBS News, USA

travels again to the former USSR

applies oneself with drawing; his interest is still directed at photos of portraits and landscapes

first exhibition of drawings in the Carlton Gallery, New York, USA

travels to India again

gains the ‘Grand Prix National de la photographie’ of the French Ministry of Culture

grant of the ”Novecento Award“ by Jorge Luis Borges in Palermo, Italy

The Centre National de la Photographie in Paris establishes the
“Henri Cartier-Bresson Prize”

opening of the ‘Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson’ in Paris

dies on August, the 3rd in Montjustin (F)

“Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century, The Art Institute of Chicago”, Chicago
“Very Early Prints”, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City
“Henri Cartier-Bresson: A Retrospective”, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art,
New York City

“The Europeans”, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt (D)
“L'Imaginaire d'après nature”, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
“A vue d'oeil”, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
“The Europeans”, Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

“Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris”, The Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago
“Henri Cartier-Bresson / Walker Evans - Photographier l’Amerique, 1929-
1947”, Fondation HBC, Paris
“Tête à tête”, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, Münster (D)

“The Early Work”, Versicherungskammer Bayern, Munich; Städtische
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim (D)

Museum Haus Ludwig, Saarlouis (D)

“Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932-46”, Fondation
HBC, Paris; International Center of Photography, New York; National Media
Museum, Bradford (UK)

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
“Photographien und Zeichnunge”“, Ludwig Galerie - Schloß Oberhausen,
Oberhausen (D)
Pera Museum, Istanbul
“Cuardernos Mexicanos 1934-1964”, Museo de Arte de El Salvador –
MARTE, San Salvador

“A Retrospective”, Foam Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny
“La Suisse et les Suisses”, Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne
Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires
“Henri Cartier-Bresson und Alberto Giacometti - Die Entscheidung des
Auges”, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
“Henri Cartier-Bresson, Danny Lyon”, MMSU - Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
“Die Essenz von Paris”, Wien Museum, Vienna

“Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson”, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
“Henri Cartier-Bresson Fotógrafo, Primera Retrospectiva en Chile”,
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Baukunst Galerie, Cologne
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
“Retrospectiva”, CaixaForum - Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona
“A Velvet Hand, A Hawk\'s Eye - Henri Cartier-Bresson”, Marion Center for
Photographic Arts, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA

“De qui s’agit-il? - Retrospective de Henri Cartier-Bresson”, Bibliothèque
Nationale de France, Paris; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona;
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome;
Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (UK); MoMA, New York; Forma – Centro
Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan; The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo

Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
CASA. Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca (E)

LCCA - Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

“Tête à Tête”, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Europeans, Meilahti Art Museum, Helsinki

“Tête à Tête”, National Portrait Gallery, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (S)
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)

“Photos and Drawings”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne

“Line by Line”, Royal College of Art, London
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (D)
Howard Greenbergh Gallery, New York

“Les Européens”, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
“Dessins 1974-1997”, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris

“Pen Brush and Cameras”, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis;
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, QC

“Dessins et Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson”, CRAC, Centre Régional
d´Art Contemporain Valence et Drome (F)

“Dessins et premières photos”, La Caridad, Barcelona
“Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson”, International Center of Photography, New York

“Photo Dessin - Dessin Photo”, Arles (F)

Musée de Noyers-sur-Serein (F)
Palazzo San Vitale, Parma
Centro de Exposiciones, Saragossa und Logrono (E)
“L´Amérique”, FNAC, Paris
“Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson”, International Center of Photography,
New York
National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Osaka University of Arts, Osaka (J)

Galerie Arnold Herstand, New York

Chapelle de l´Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny (F)
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim (D)
“The Early Work”, Museum Folkwang, Essen (D)

“Hommage à Henri Cartier-Bresson”, Centre National de la Photographie,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna
Institut Français, Athens (GR)

“Early Photographs”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Institut Français, Stockholm
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo

Salzburger Landessammlung, Salzburg (A)
“Henri Cartier-Bresson en Inde”, Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

“Paris à vue d´oil”, Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (UK)

Printemps Ginza, Tokyo
Tor Vergata University, Rome
Pavillon d´Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Fundacion Juan March, Madrid

Musée d´Arte moderno de Mexico, Mexico City

Musée d´Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

“Portraits”, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva

Carlton Gallery, New York
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

exhibition about the USSR, International Center of Photography, New York

“En France”, Grande Palais, Paris, travels to the USA, the USSR, Australia
and Japan

Museum of Modern Art, New York

second retrospective, first shown in Tokyo, then in the Musée des Arts
décoratifs, Paris; later in New York, London, Amsterdam, Rome, Zurich,
Cologne (exhibition hall) and other cities

The Philipps Collection, Washington, DC

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

retrospective touring exhibition: Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris;
travels to Museums in Europe, USA und Canada

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexiko-City

Galerie Julien Levy, New York
Cercle Atheneo, Madrid