Interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson (video)

This the one with Charlie Rose? Cringe worthy, go watch "The Impassioned Eye" instead, would not recommend this documentary, Charlie really gets on my (and HCB's) nerve in this interview. But I've heard Charlie's interview with Avedon is very good.
 
I think the best story I ever heard about Henri Cartier-Bresson was that he was about to be captured by the Germans so he burried his Leica. After a year he escaped from prison and went to go get his camera back and it was still there.
 
He also burried a couple of his photos and negs if I remember well ; he actually was captured, escaped, lived in clandestinity for some times - hence the Moma making a "posthumous" exhibition about his work, mourning his seemingly untimely death...
 
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