Manual and Intellectual Work

Manual and Intellectual Work

Photograph

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Maker
French, 1908–2004

Manual and Intellectual Work

China Seen from the Inside


1958
Gelatin silver print, printed November 1961
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 3/16 in. (16.1 × 23.4 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0095
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: 11/61 5) MANUAL AND INTELLECTUAL WORK should be combined, \ according to Red China's leaders. School children from \ Peking's secondary school No. 83 were sent out to work in \ the fields of a commune near the capital. During a work \ interval they listen to a lecture on fertilizer. \ Credit: Cartier-Bresson © 1961 MAGNUM Photos

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