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Henri Cartier-Bresson visited the Soviet Union in 1954 to document daily life under communism, the first foreign photographer to photograph “freely” in the post-war since Stalin’s death a year earlier. After this first trip to Russia, a second one came 19 years later for Cartier-Bresson. He was looking forward to it with the expectation to see the changes. “There is nothing more revealing than comparing a country with itself by grasping its differences and trying to discover the thread of its continuity,” he said.

Tretyakovsky Art Gallery, Moscow, USSR, 1954
City life, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Gorky Park, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Circus, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Circus, Moscow, USSR, 1954

Tretyakovsky Art Gallery, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Tretyakovsky Art Gallery, Moscow, USSR, 1954
A Hat, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Sadovaya Street, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Pedestrian walk, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Cafeteria of the Workers’ building, the Hotel Metropol, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Exhibition of National Economy Achievements (VDNH), Moscow, USSR, 1954
Sport Day at Dinamo stadium – spectators – Moscow, USSR, 1954
Subway, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Sokolniki park, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Sokolniki church, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Sokolniki church, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Serebryany Bor, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Reding-hall at Lenin Library, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Morning at Red Square, Moscow, USSR, 1954
First Bike, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Gorky Street, Moscow, USSR, 1954
Fasion, Moscow, USSR, 1954
About store show-window, Moscow, USSR, 1954
ZiS (Stalin automobile plant) assembly line, Moscow, USSR, 1954