Cartier-Bresson was a French photojournalist who worked around the world capturing post-Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, etc. Most importantly to me, he was in India when Gandhi was assassinated and he captured some beautiful images of Gandhi's cremation and funeral procession.
He also captured a rather cheeky photo, at left, of Lord Mountbatten (the British official brought to transfer power from the empire to India), Lady Mountbatten (Mountbatten's wife), and Nehru, the first prime minister of India. The historical rumor has always been that Nehru was having a torrid affair with Lady Mountbatten... they seemed to get on famously in this picture, at least. You may think what you like, but I certainly believe it's somehow fitting at the end of the British Raj that Nehru was making fools of the British in all sorts of respects and different fashions...
Anyway, the exhibit was lovely and I fell in love with a beautiful book in the museum store, Henri Cartier-Bresson In India, where I got this image.
