There was a lovely girl in our class who had a copy of Cartier-Bresson’s The Decisive Moment, and we often leafed through his pictures. We liked his vitality and his creative genius. We loved his pictures. He said that through the act of living, the discovery of oneself is made concurrently with the discovery of the world around us. It was then that I fell in love for the first time, with the girl and with Cartier-Bresson. I wanted her to fall in love with me. So I bought a secondhand 35 mm Contax to take pictures as beautiful as Cartier-Bresson’s. But when I showed her my photographs it was too late, she had fallen in love with our English professor. I was left with Cartier-Bresson.
Bruce Davidson. London: Thames and Hudson, 1990. +
