Henri Cartier-Bresson. FRANCE.
Paris. 1969. La Défense. Home Economics Show. 1969. Magnum Collection,
ARTstor.
I spent over an hour browsing through Magnum Collection
before landing on this photo of a French home economics show. I was drawn to
this image because of the simplicity of it. When I think of documentary
photography I think of important historical events but also of images of the
everyday; of the lives of individuals. This image of a French woman talking to
an appliance salesman depicts just that. This is a situation most people can
relate to. One can imagine the salesman’s pitch to convince the woman to
purchase the appliance and the woman’s skepticism.
Note from Martha: and this photo took me back to a photo from 1959 - the famous (at least then) Nixon/Kruschev "kitchen" debate. Did anyone else think of that when they saw this image? Kruschev looked pretty skeptical at the time...
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