LEVITT/CARTIER-BRESSON. MEXICO

This publication presents an original dialogue between the Mexican photographs of Helen Levitt and those of Henri Cartier-Bresson . The two photographers first met in New York in the spring of 1935. Cartier-Bresson had just spent a year in Mexico, while the American had only just started photographing the theatre of New York street life. In 1941, fascinated by Cartier-Bresson's work, Levitt decided to visit the same destination. The two journeys to Mexico turned out to be pivotal points at the beginning of their long careers, during w...[Read more]