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I came
to Paris for the first time in the summer of 1951. During that stay I met
Henri Cartier-Bresson, who advised me to switch from the Rollei to the Leica
("you don't carry your eyes on your belly" ). I settled in Paris
four years later, and spent much time photographing in the streets, on speculation.
In 1956 and 1957, I did a series of city-scapes with a 400 mm tele-lens,
which were first published by the Swiss magazine CAMERA (then directed by
Romeo Martinez). Many photographs from this period have been exhibited at
the MUSÉE CARNAVALET, in Paris, in 1996-97 ("Paris-Londres,
London-Paris"), and are now part of the permanent collection of that
museum. |
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