It was like this, Mother - Honest!
Photograph
It was like this, Mother - Honest!
1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/8 × 9 9/16 in. (16.2 × 24.3 cm)
Paper: 7 15/16 × 10 1/8 in. (20.2 × 25.7 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0587
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 10/62 25) "IT WAS LIKE THIS, MOTHER - HONEST!" Children wasing at the \ seashore in Blackpool, England recently had an amazing tale to tell skeptical \ parents. But photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who believes in children, \ sent this picture back in gleeful evidence. \ Credit: Henri Cartier-Bresson © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
