Dessau: Exposing a Gestapo Informer

Dessau: Exposing a Gestapo Informer

Photograph

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Maker
French, 1908–2004

Dessau: Exposing a Gestapo Informer

Gestapo Informer Recognized by a Woman She Had Denounced


Exposing a stool pigeon for the Gestapo in a displaced persons camp


April 1945
Gelatin silver print, printed later
Image: 6 3/4 × 9 9/16 in. (17.1 × 24.3 cm)
Paper: 11 × 14 in. (28 × 35.6 cm)
Matted: 14 × 18 in. (35.6 × 45.7 cm)
Museum accession by exchange, 1973
1973.0057.0002
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil on verso, TL: Dessau: Exposing a Gestapo Informer, 1945.
Stamped in ink on verso, C: HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON \ Mention obligatoire \ Prière de reproduire cotte photo intégralement \ sans en modifier le cadrage.
Stamped in ink on verso, C: magnum distribution
Inscribed in pencil on verso, C: Sauv \ 34

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