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Celebrating the Negative: Photographs by John Loengard, recently published by Etherton Gallery, showcases the negatives of 18 iconic 19th- and 20th-century photographs. The hands holding the negative of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Behind the Gare St. Lazare belong to George Fèvre, who works often with Cartier-Bresson’s images.

For safekeeping, the negative was cut from a strip of 35mm film at the start of World War II. Sprocket holes are missing on one side. Possibly the film was manufactured without them—or possibly someone has cut them off. Asked about this, Cartier-Bresson replies, “I swallowed them.”

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