Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Carson McCullers and George Davis, Nyack, New York, 1946
Carson McCullers and George Davis, Nyack, New York, 1946
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Carson McCullers and George Davis, Nyack, New York, 1946
Carson McCullers and George Davis, Nyack, New York, 1946
Unique gelatin silver print, printed c. 1946.
image: 6 1/2 x 9 1/2in. (16.5 x 24.1cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.)
image: 6 1/2 x 9 1/2in. (16.5 x 24.1cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.)
Provenance:
Sotheby's New York, October 15, 1992, lot 320;
to a Private Collection, New York
This photograph was originally a gift from Cartier-Bresson to its former owner. The two met during a drive, along with George Miles, to Carson McCullers’ Nyack home where Bresson took this double portrait. McCullers was best known for her books The Heart is A Lonely Hunter (1940) and The Member of the Wedding (1946); Davis was the fiction and features editor at Harper’s Bazaar and Mademoiselle from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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