By Cécile D. Published on August 31, 2023 at 5:49 p.m.
Join Ruth Orkin on her incredible bike trip across the United States! Discover the exhibition Bike Trip, USA, 1939, presented at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, from September 19, 2023 to January 14, 2024.
A bike, a camera, and a fabulous trip through the UNITED STATES : this is the unusual story told by the new exhibition of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. The place of art honors Ruth Orkin from September 19, 2023 to January 14, 2024, with the exhibition Bike trip, USA, 1939.
Barely 17 years old, the young Ruth Orkin decides to leave the family home, located in Los Angeles, to cross the country and reach the East coast of the United States. A long journey through the most major american cities, which the young artist immortalizes through 350 exceptional photographs. This solo trip from West to East is a real epic for the teenager, at a time when the independence of women, security, means of transport were not the same.
Ruth Orkin announced her plan to visit the New York World’s Fair. She therefore chained buses, cars and trains to reach her goal. At each stage, the young artist jumps on her bike, to explore the cities that stand on her route. Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Washington, Philadelphia… In these streets, Ruth Orkin finds new worlds, fascinating landscapes. She captures with her camera the streets, the life scenes, the people she meets. She also has a lot of fun with her self-portraits, and her bicycle, which she stages in surprising and amusing shots.
L’exposition photo from Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation tells us about this extraordinary adventure, thanks to a forty photographspress articles and period documents, but also with the manuscript that Ruth Orkin wrote about her journey. Let yourself be drawn into this fabulous story, and come and admire the photographs of the photographer, in the exhibition Bike trip, USA, 1939.
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