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...anarchist, but not violent.") He also met the cream of bohemian Paris, from Jean Giraudoux to Max Ernst and Gertrude Stein. In 1931, after a year hunting game on the Ivory Coast, Cartier-Bresson had a fateful chance encounter when he came across a photograph by the Hungarian Martin Munkacsi: three boys leaping in the waves of Lake Tanganyika. "I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant," he explained. He bought his first Leica and the odyssey began. At first he worked on his own, prowling the streets of Paris, Italy, Spain and Mexico, "ready...
...Camera has its quota of unaesthetic nudes, meaningless pattern designs, and pretty pictures, which constitute too large a part of the book; but after wading through it, there are several photographs which make it a worth-while volume--top honors going to Edward Steichen, Bradford Washburn, Martin Munkacsi, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston...
...Budapest, police rescued starving Caroline Munkacsi from her 100th suicide attempt. Although the latest was by drowning, she generally favors...
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