<div><p>New York's Museum of Modern Art Tuesday announced plans to stage the first major retrospective in the United States for three decades of French photography master Henri Cartier-Bresson.</p><p>The exhibition from April 11 through June 28 will comprise 300 prints from 1929-1989, a fifth of them never shown before.</p><p>The main focus is on Cartier-Bresson's most productive decades, from the 1930s to the 1960s, showing his "uncanny talent for seizing lasting images from the flux of experience," MoMA said in a statement.</p><p>The first of 12 sections in the exhibit is devoted to his surrealist stage, when he used a Leica camera "to invent a new brand of creative magic."</p><p>The second highlights his photojournalist work after World War II, including his depictions of political and social upheaval in Asia.</p><p>The other ten parts are divided into themes, including daily life in the East, West and in his native France. There are sections on the United States, the Soviet Union and China.</p><p>"Taken as a whole, the exhibition presents Cartier-Bresson as a keen observer of the global panorama of human affairs and as the author of the fullest, most varied, and far-ranging account of the modern century that any photographer has produced," the statement said.</p><p>Cartier-Bresson died in 2004, aged 95.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=67851975&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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