HCB with Zorki?

Maybe he got one when he was in the USSR in 1954, being the first western photoreporter after the war who was welcome there.

I know this film-fragment, but I always thought he held an M3.

Could also be that the shot of the Zorki is inserted in this film. You only see the hands of the photographer. At the start of the film you see Cartier-Bresson with his black M3.

Erik.

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Is there chance HCB was gifted Zorki when he visited USSR? Engraved "From communist party and whole soviet population".
 
Did he make any pictures there?

Erik.

Yes he did - some are printed in the book, perhaps two dozen or so. It being a travelogue, there is quite a bit of discussion of the process and difficulties of taking photos in the Soviet Union at that time. I stumbled upon a first edition in a local book shop last year. Highly recommended.
 
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