Diacritiques

Two days ago, at the age of 95, Henri Cartier-Bresson died. On the Libération site, there is a well-selected collection of links to online exhibitions of his work.

What I find most interesting is that at this time of obituaries, the press is full of prints of photographs of, rather than by him. One I’ve never seen is on today’s Libé front page (hurry to get the pdf, the link content changes every day. Le Monde has an even better one — the photographer as a photographer in the mirror, shot over his shoulder — but they didn’t put it on the web, unfortunately.