The Faulkner Reader

The Faulkner Reader

William Faulkner, Oxford, Mississippi 1947 [detail]

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These anthologies, published in 1954 and 1963 respectively, depict the most obvious and essential detail of Cartier-Bresson's classic portrait of William Faulkner and two of his terriers, made at the writer's Oxford, Mississippi home in 1947. I emphasize 'detail' because Cartier-Bresson was a photographic purist in the sense that he insited that his negatives be printed and reproduced in their entirety; cropping was permitted only when absolutely necessary. If you click on the highlighted link below, you should not only see the complete Fulkner image, but a warning against cropping as well. Perhaps these rules were more flexible forty or fifty years ago.