ALAIN NOGUES (* 1937)
Henri Cartier-Bresson with his Leica M3in front of the Odeon theatre, May 1968 crisis, Paris 1968

Estimate: € 4.000-5.000

Gelatin silver print, large format print, printed in the 1990s

53 x 36 cm

Signed, dated, annotated and numbered by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, edition no. 3/30, photographer's blindstamp in the margin lower right In May of 1968, angry students and workers took to the streets to protest against widespread poverty, unemployment, and the conservative government of Charles de Gaulle. Cartier-Bresson took some of the most known photographs of the riots. Here we see him with his Leica M3 waiting in front of the Odeon Theatre, which had been occupied by students for weeks, and was being evacuated by the police.

Start price: €2.400