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ALAIN NOGUES
(* 1937)
Henri Cartier-Bresson, May
1968, Paris 1968
Gelatin silver print, large
format print, printed in the 1990s
53 × 36 cm (20.9 × 14.2 in)
Signed, dated, annotated and
numbered by the photographer in
pencil on the reverse, edition no.
3/30, photographer’s blindstamp in
the margin lower right
€ 2.400 / € 4.000–5.000

In May of 1968, angry students
and workers took to the streets to
protest against widespread poverty,
unemployment, and the conservative
government of Charles de Gaulle.
Cartier-Bresson took some of the
most known photographs of the
riots. Here we see him with his Leica
M3 waiting in front of the Odeon
Theatre, which had been occupied
by students for weeks, and was
being evacuated by the police.

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KIICHI ASANO (1914–1993)
Kiichi Aasano with his Leica,
Tokamachi 1957
Gelatin silver print, printed
in the 1990s
44 × 32 cm (17.3 × 12.6 in)
Hand-calligraphed title sheet on Japanese
paper, bearing the seals of the artist (in
black ink) and his son (in red ink), tipped to
the verso of the print with archival wheat
paste
€ 1.400 / € 2.000–3.000

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