last days of Peking

Review: Henri Cartier-Bresson: China

“A career with five great photographs would be pretty good...” said Richard Avedon, “...[Henri Cartier-Bresson has] hundreds of them!”. This emphatic statement is not an exaggeration, as Cartier-Bresson is easily one of the greatest photographers of his generation, and one of the great artists of the twentieth century. It is quite a privilege to walk through the galleries of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and be in the presence of the great master’s work....