The New Orleans Museum of Art has announced a major gift to its photography department – the third such announcement this month
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans Museum of Art has announced a major gift to its photography department – the third such announcement this month.
Collectors Cherye R. and James F. Pierce have given the museum more than 260 important photographs, a news release Thursday said.
They include a print of Robert Capa’s “The Falling Soldier,” taken in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, and the 1932 photograph titled “Behind the Gare St. Lazare,” which many consider Henri Cartier-Bresson’s best work. Another print of that Cartier-Bresson photograph sold at a London auction in 2017 for £131,000 (about $170,300), according to the Phillips Auctioneers website.
Others range from vintage prints by Ansel Adams to contemporary work