Martin Munkácsi (1896 – 1963)Four Boys at Lake Tanganyika (c. 1930)
«Despite its traditional title, this photography was probably taken on Liberia's Atlantic coast. The great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson saw it in the photography annual Das Deutsch Lichtbild in 1932 and later said, 'It is that very photograph which was for me the spark that set fire to fireworks... It is only that one photograph which influenced me.'»
Silver gelatin print, 1994, from original negative. 35.5 x 27.5 cm. Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét. © Estate of Martin Munkácsi, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
(text taken from the Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century - Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi exhibition' at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, July 2011)
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