“A photograph is neither taken or seized by force. It offers itself up. It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos”
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
Paris was Henri’s heartbeat. He knew so well every corner of it and every breath the city ever took throughout his long and unparalleled productive photographic life. I tell everyone who comes into my gallery that without him I wouldn’t be here. Wandering with his hand held Leica he came across a familiar vista, one he had seen hundreds of times before as many of us have. But it was something different this particular day. He must have been thinking about his early training as a painter and he created something truly dreamlike. It almost seems something completely non photographic. Like a charcoal drawing. Pure magic.
