This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
Do a search for “Henri Cartier-Bresson” using Google’s image search engine, and the photograph above is one of the results that pops up. Dig a little deeper into the results, and you’ll learn that it’s a photo by Cartier-Bresson showing French actress Isabelle Huppert.
Problem is, that’s all wrong. The woman in the photo isn’t Isabelle Huppert, and the photograph wasn’t snapped by the father of modern photojournalism.Andrew Orlowski of The Register calls it an example of “hive mind photo fail,” and reports that the photograph was actually snapped after the legendary photographer was already dead.
The photograph among Google search results for “Henri Cartier-Bresson”The picture was actually created by Lithuanian-born photographer Andrej Vasilenko on a beach at the edge of Lithuanian. It was shot in 2007 — three years after Cartier-Bresson passed away.
The subject of the photograph is a young woman named Miglė Narbutaitė, who was a fellow photo student at the time Vasilenko shot the photograph for a school assignment.
The Register writes that although Vasilenko was at first flattered to have his photo mistakenly attributed to one of the most famous and respected photographers, he became less enthusiastic about the …
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