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HENRI CARTIER BRESSON
MAN AND MACHINE
For Henri Cartier-Bresson a sense of freedom was the key to his photographic intuition.
So it was not IBM’s policy to ask this great photographer to limit himself in delivering a specific message. He was given carte blanche all over the world to document people at work.
1967 was a period of great transformation: production line work had changed little since the industrial revolution and safety regulations were rarely applied, but it was also the moment when the era of engineers, computer science and robotisation was beginning.
For the first time, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation has granted the scoop of presenting this little-known work.
Location
Palazzo Pepoli.
Museo della storia di Bologna
Via Castiglione, 8
Location
Palazzo Pepoli.
Museo della storia di Bologna
Via Castiglione, 8
Construction of this palazzo was begun in the 1660s as a residence for the Pepoli family. One of the most prominent families in Bologna, the Pepoli were first textile merchants and later money-changers and bankers. The palazzo’s halls were frescoed by the leading artists in fine Bolognese decoration in the latter half of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries: Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Ercole Canuti, the Rolli brothers, and Donato Creti.
