Unexpectedly more captivating: a small folio he made called Black White and Things, depicting "somber people or black events, quiet people and peaceful places, and the things people come in contact with," and introduced with the quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. A photograph of a woman, clad in a fur stole and form-fitting gown with bell-shaped hem that falls widely from the knee, taken from behind as she passes through a doorway –– and away from the viewer –– in Paris, 1952, stopped me cold to contemplate how many entrances and exits unfold in our lives. Was it the first time he saw her? Or the last?
Then, Sant Ambroeus and a view of Madison Avenue at twilight, known as l'heure bleue for what it both reveals and conceals.
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