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Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson : Ruth Orkin : Bike Trip, USA, 1939

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For the first time in France, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson presents an exhibition entirely devoted to the American photographer Ruth Orkin (1921-1985). Internationally recognized for the photograph entitled American Girl in Italy (1951), an iconic image of a woman traveling alone, Ruth Orkin carried out a pioneering project when she was a teenager: crossing the Western United States starting in the west, going east.

In 1939, when she was 17 years old and living with her parents in Los Angeles, Ruth Orkin set out to cross the United States alone, from the Pacific to the Atlantic. She traveled by bicycle, or, to be more precise, with it. She went long distances by car, train or bus, using her bicycle to visit big cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Boston and San Francisco.

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