I feel the city of Paris and/or Leica Camera AG should put a display of some sort behind Gare Saint-Lazare with the story of the photograph, because nobody knows. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95 FLE. To my dismay, I have met French people who don’t know.Īrcheologic pastime: My desk with my framed Henri Cartier-Bresson print, my Danish made Dali KATCH bluetooth hifi-speaker, and camera and writing parts. While Henri Cartier-Bresson to me is a household name that “everybody knows”, the reality is that very few do. I have had the mixed pleasure of having people looking at the framed photograph and ask me all sorts of questions. Today I have an original print of Behind St-Lazare from the American Express Exhibition in New York in 1983. That’s the reason when someone asks, who my favorite photographers are, and I never have any names. I always looked at the pictures, and only in the cases where I found the photographs fascinating, I started getting interested in the name behind them. It wasn’t that way, but in my world, I did in fact discover him before I knew who he was.Īs a side note, that’s how I have always studied photographs. In a way, I feel I discovered Henri Cartier-Bresson before anybody else. It wasn’t until later in life that the name Henri Cartier-Bresson, the Leica, and the history of photography took on significance as I learned he was recognized as the most influential reportage photographer of the century. I knew it when I saw it the first time, this is a great photograph. Knowing nothing about anything back then, I can truthfully say that it was the photograph and not the who or the history behind it that impressed me. One of them I even used as an idea for a magazine cover I was drawing (I was doing comics when I was a teenager). I must have picked up a book on the library, because I was exposed to a few of his photographs, I now realize. The project started a long time before May 2017: My fascination with this photograph started when I was a teenager and knew nothing about Henri Cartier-Bresson. Leica M10 with Leica 50mm Noctilux-M ASPH f/0.95 at f/2.0. The closest I got to a re-creation of the famous Henri Cartier-bresson photograph. In the footsteps of Henri Cartier-Bresson 85 years laterĪRCHEOLOGICAL FACTFINDING: When I was in Paris in May, I rented an apartment a couple of minutes from the Saint-Lazare train station where Henri Cartier-Bresson made one of his most iconic photographs, and then I spent some days exploring the scene as an archeological pastime
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