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Article: Eyes behind the camera, then and now. (interviews with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gilles Peress)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- November 9, 1987
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Eyes behind the camera, then and now
At 79, Henri Cartier-Bresson now spends his time as a painter. But for more than a half-century, he was a pioneer of modern photography. His pictures of India, China and the Soviet Union filled the pages of Life before the rise of television. His early works--surreal, ambiguous images of Italy, Spain and Mexico in the '30s--are hanging in a retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
Gilles Peress, 40, also French-born and a friend of Cartier-Bresson's, is a leading contemporary photographer who was featured in a "new photojournalism' exhibit at Minneapolis's Walker Art Center. Next year, he will be in ...