Hi, > As an interesting aside, on page 15 of Photo, there's a later > photograph of the Master himself, taken around 1975, and guess what > he's got around his neck? Yup, a Leica CL!! I was very excited. > Doesn't have the 40mm Summicron C that was designed for it, but rather > something chrome, likely a 50mm. By then I think HCB was pretty much > only taking family snaps, but still, if a CL was good enough for > him...
you must ask Father Christmas for a copy of "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Man, the Image and the World" http://tinyurl.com/3vlq3. It includes family snaps of him as a child, as well as some previously unpublished very early photos he took, and of course almost everything else besides. -- Cheers, Bob
