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Cradled in the crook of his arm or clutched tightly in his palm, the camera is his constant companion. At any instant, any place, Henri Cartier-Bresson may suddenly lift his battered Leica to eye level, click the shutter and return instantly to whatever he was doing before what he calls "the decisive moment." Capturing such moments-usually joy, sadness, love, a memory reflected in a face or posture-has been Cartier-Bresson's life and profession for more than three decades. He has become the master of the documentary photograph...
...Chichester Fortescue, a real name that sounds like a Lear invention. Lear's peregrinations over 30 years ranged from Calais to the coast of Coromandel, a course which enabled him to work at his art-essentially the trade of providing souvenirs of the Grand Tour to a pre-Leica...
...doesn't take any media theorists to tell us the importance of good photographers to a newspaper, and our PHOTO BOARD provides the people we need to cover the news. You may not know a Leica from a light-meter when you start the Photo Board comp, but by the time we're ready to elect you, you'll know how to take good pictures...
...first place. Despite the disapproval of her factory-manager father, she worked 18 hours a day for six months as an interviewer in a Paris employment agency to save the money for the trip. Her professional photographic experience was nil. Buying new equipment to supplement the single Leica she arrived with, Cathy has doggedly progressed from barely competent to the point where A.P. Photographer Horst Faas says, "She is one of the best four or five freelancers here...
...send the stupifying Bodoni back to the Congressional Record. The new look includes photographs, and the full-page ones in this issue are of Harvard's beautiful people." They must have been taken either by W. Laney Thornton, the sole member of the Photographic Board, or by a Leica with a very dry sense of humor...