“Street photography is a joy. But the most difficult thing for me is a portrait. It’s not at all like someone you catch on the street. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt, which is not an easy thing”
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
(1908 - 2004)
This is perhaps one of the greatest photographs of an artist at work ever taken. Henri was very close with Matisse. Matisse designed the cover for Henri’s seminal book “The Decisive Moment”.
Here, Matisse is almost blind and drawing the outline of the dove in his hand from memory as the light from the window envelopes them. Heart breakingly beautiful, a tender gesture, by the photographer to his friend and fellow artist.
