Boys Running into the Surf, Liberia
- Year
- 1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Geography
- Liberia
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
Among the most consequential photographs of the twentieth century. Henri Cartier-Bresson credited this image as the single work that compelled him to take up a camera. Munkácsi made this exposure during an assignment to document Liberia for the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung.
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