Three boys mid-sprint, silhouetted against a bright surf line, bodies leaning forward in motion

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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