Darkroom Print: Washington D.C., 1957 Top Seller Letter to Robert Capa

Letter to Robert Capa

while also elevating his words

fragmentary history

on the River Clyde

Soth has an instinct for the relationship between narrative and metaphor

Darkroom Print: Washington D.C., 1957 Top Seller Letter to Robert CapaIn May 1957, upwards of 22,000 people gathered to mark the third anniversary of the landmark legal case, Brown v. Board of Education. Martin Luther King Jr gave a speech, which came to be known as Give Us the Ballot. Bob Henriques and Henri Cartier Bresson were both covering the event, and here, Henriques captures an intimate moment as Cartier Bresson pauses, camera in hand, just in front of Martin Luther King Jr himself, with the Washington Monument