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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004) A trio of photographs, from The Great Leap Forward, China. Silver prints, the images measuring 8x11 7/8 inches (20.3x30.2 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, each with Cartier-Bresson's credit stamp and the Collection David and Tessa Winter stamp, on verso. 1958; printed circa 1970s
WITH--Philip Jones Griffiths. War in Cambodia. Silver print, the image measuring 6 5/8x9 3/4 inches (16.8x24.8 cm.), with Griffiths' credit stamp, the title in ink in an unknown hand, and the Collection David and Tessa Winter stamp, on verso. 1973-75
Cartier-Bresson's photographs were taken during his second trip to China on the launch of the "Great Leap Forward" to report on the results of the Revolution and the industrialization of rural areas in 1958, and include Construction of the Sanmenxia Dam on the Yellow River (a diversion canal is first created), July 1958 and Visitors to the "Transport and Industry" exhibition in Beijing, September 1958.
Best-known for covering conflicts in Asia, and more especially the Vietnam War, Griffith is remembered for his striking photographs, which not only document the combats, but also their destructive consequences. This photograph was taken during the Civil War in Cambodia that he covered between 1973 and 1975.
