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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Last Days of the Kuomintang, Merchant waiting with Man Eating, Beijing
1948
Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped
6 1/4 x 9 3/8 ins (15.9 x 23.8 cm)
Sotheby's - New York
Photographs, 1 April 2015, Lot: 51
LL/58470
This print was made during Cartier-Bresson's assignment in China for LIFE in 1948, which the photographer chronicled extensively in his 1956 volume, China in Transition: A Moment in History. While this image ultimately was not used by LIFE, it has attained icon status within the photographer's oeuvre.
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