14 November 2012, 01:59 PM IST
Department Photographs organizes the largest auction ever held by Christie's in France on 17 November. It includes 175 photographs, the whole is estimated to be between 2 and 3 million. This year the big names in the history of photography will be honoured with Man Ray, Eugene Atget, Brassaï and Henri-Cartier Bresson for more conventional but Peter Beard, David Lachapelle Youssef Nabil or for more contemporary. This sale also includes two collections. First California private collection of fifty photographs which illustrate American William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Weegee, or Dorothea Lange. As for the second, a Japanese collection of 42 photographs showcasing Man Ray, El Lissitsky, Andre Kertesz, Brassai and Maxime du Camp.
Among the Bresson images is the iconic Nehru Mountbatten image that speaks of the moment in candour and comfort. In 1947, Henri Cartier-Bresson was in India for the first time to document the newly independent India. His most famous picture of the independent India was that of Viceroy Lord Mountbatten, and PM Nehru on the steps of Government House, Delhi. Nehru and Mountbatten's wife Edwina shared a joke while the viceroy looked whimsically away. The image is estimated at €3,000 - €5,000($3,832 - $6,387).
In some ways Bresson's juxtaposition compared and contrasted the English reserve and native candidness. According to Alex von Tunzelmann the author of "Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire." This was a surprising image of imperial retreat. "Against the massive colonnade of Delhi's Government House, Lord "Dickie" Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India and cousin to the king of England, stands stiffly in his gleaming naval whites. To his left is Jawaharlal Nehru, the man who led the political resistance to the British, creased up with laughter. Nehru's joke is shared with Mountbatten's wife, Edwina. The picture was taken by the great photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1948, just a few months after India and Pakistan had achieved independence from Britain.
Perhaps in the legend of photojournalism, Cartier-Bresson's nearly 60-year-old snap of the Mountbattens and Nehru captured more than just a moment. It captured a story. When the Mountbattens arrived in India in March 1947, the country was in a state of intermittent civil war. Relations with Britain were in the dumps, relations between the Indian political parties were disastrous, and all hopes for an amicable settlement that would lead to independence seemed lost. And yet, in under five months, Mountbatten pulled off a cordial exit. As the photograph suggests, the Mountbattens and Nehru enjoyed a close friendship. As it hints, things went further than that.
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