Born in 1915 into a poor Jewish family in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin aspired to the upper reaches of Manhattan literary society. In his twenties he became somewhat of a star with the publication of On Native Grounds, a pioneering study of the American realist novel. Later, he championed writers such as Malamud, Bellow and Roth. Cartier-Bresson's portrait was used as the cover illustration for Kazin's book, Writing Was Everything, published by Harvard University Press in 1995. A new biography has recently been published by Yale University Press.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)

Alfred Kazin, 1946

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HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908-2004)
Alfred Kazin, 1946
gelatin silver print
inscribed 'à Alfred avec mon amitié, Henri', 'so light hearted so young...couldn't catch the rest' in ink and credit stamp (on the verso)
9¾ x 6½in. (24.8 x 16.7cm.)