HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, HELEN LEVITT | Mexique / Mexico

Edited by Thomas Zander

Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne

With a conversation between Anne Bertrand and Joshua Chuang

The publication presents an original dialogue between the Mexican photographs of Helen Levitt and 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 Levitt had only just started photographing New York street life. In 1941, fascinated by Cartier-Bresson’s work, Levitt decided to visit the same destination. The two voyages to Mexico turned out to be pivotal points at the beginning of the artists‘ respective long careers, during which the two photographers each forged their own respective and conceptions of photography.

The catalogue is accompanying
the exhibition Henri Cartier-Bresson, Helen Levitt: Mexico at Fondation
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, 14 February – 23 April 2023.