European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Hungary 1965 �. Complex in design. Seemingly drawn almost at random from the existential flow of life. Henri Cartier Bresson one of the world s leading photographers has reached his lofty Pinnacle by being an Enigma. Scorning the gadgetry of his Trade he never sets up a picture and once it s taken never crops to. He uses natural Light Only refuses to shoot color it makes people less Sensi Tive it Cretin izes  and made his reputation by literally turning his Back on history. While others shot the sensational or anecdotal Cartier Bresson snapped his masterpieces by playing against the subject. Others looked for what was happening he looked for reactions to what was happening. The camera he says is to some extent a sort of notebook for recording sketches made in time and space but it is also an admirable instrument for seizing upon life As it presents  in agreement is John Szarkowski who As director of the photography department has assembled at the new York museum of modern Art 150 of the Frenchman s photographs mostly portraiture and landscapes taken during the past 10 years three of which Are shown Here. Cartier Bresson is not a photo journalist he is a photo philosopher. Although made in a Hundredth part of a second his pictures speak of the character of decades and  Greece 1963  of a Village that is without  Yugoslavia 1965-. While the mature plod Onward youth shows indecisiveness. Tuesday August 6, 1968 the stars and stripes