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Archive - Moscow seen by Henri Cartier-Bresson 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 

In 1954, Henri Cartier-Bresson boarded a train to Moscow, visas and governmental permission in hand, and took a book's worth of photographs of Soviet people doing ordinary things.
He was the first photographer to be allowed to visit Soviet Union before the "détente", this is a selection from his book "Moscow" published by Delpire. 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Red Square, facing the Kremlin's brick... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954.

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Red Square. People in line to visit... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. In the gardens surrounding... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. 
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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954.

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Komsomolskaya Square where three... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. A man from the Caucasus region in... 
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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954.

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Leningrad. 1954. "Univermag", State department... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. The Zis factory. A worker and female... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Zis factory. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Zis factory. The trucks production.... 

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USSR. Moscow. 1954. Zis factory. The trucks production. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Zis factory. The trucks production.... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Workers of a state-farm visiting... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Workers of a state-farm visiting... 
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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Inside the house of Leo Tolstoy. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Museum of the Revolution.... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Russian Orthodox church. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Leningrad. 1954. Sunday mass at a Russian... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo. Every year... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo. Every year... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo. Every year... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo. Every year... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo. Every year... 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Stade Dynamo. Every year... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. In August government members inaugurated... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. In August government members inaugurated... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954. 
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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Gorky Park of Culture and Rest. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Near Moscow. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. Academy of music. 1954. Russian... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Bolchoi Theater. 1954. Swan Lake (ballet... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. Bolchoi Theater. 1954. Swan Lake (ballet... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Marionette Theater. Center: Stage... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Moscow State University main building.... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Lenin State Library. Inside one of... 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. Elementary school. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Young Pioneer camp near Moscow. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Leningrad. 1954. Park of Culture and Rest. 

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SOVIET UNION. Moscow. 1954. 

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SOVIET UNION. Russia. Moscow. 1954. Fashion show. 
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