[ Photographs ] Cartier-Bresson, Henri Mexico [Female Prostitutes]. Vintage silver print, 10 x 7inches. 1934 E20000-30000 An Unpublished Image, From Cartier-Bresson's Earliest yeawrs as a photographer that was formely in the collection of Lupe Marin

[ Photographs ] Cartier-Bresson, Henri Mexico [Female Prostitutes]. Vintage silver print, 10 x 7inches. 1934 E20000-30000 An Unpublished Image, From Cartier-Bresson's Earliest yeawrs as a photographer that was formely in the collection of Lupe Marin According to Peter Galassi, "During his stay in Mexico City Cartier-Bresson lived with the American Langston Hughes and the Mexican Andres Henestrosa, both poets. Among his other friends were Lupe Marin, the estranged wife of Diego Rivera, and the young photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo, whose work had already taken a turn parallel to Cartier-Bresson's. " "The area where the men lived," writes Juan Rulfo, "was in one of the most sordid quarters of the capital, near the Candelaria de los Patos, the Cuadrante de la Soledad, and not far from the chaotic Mercado de la Merced and the Calle Cuauhtemoctzin and the Calle Chimalpopoca, a zone reserved for the underworld, prostitution, and the teporochos [alcoholics]. " Galassi goes on to note that "the great majority of Cartier-Bresson's work was done in this neighborhood or far from the city in Juchitan. "A variant of this picture is reproduced in Galassi's book Henri Cartier-bresson, The Early Work, p. 13 7