The exhibition comprises more than a hundred black and white photographs arranged chronologically from 1933 to 1996. Henri Cartier-Bresson released a shortlist of portraits in 1998, when he released his book Tête à tête.
All these portraits reflect the public and cultural life of the twentieth century: from Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paula Sartra, Marilyn Monroe, Edith Piaf and Coco Chanel, Che Guevara and Dalai Lama,
Igor Stravinsky and Robert Oppenheimer.