A Book Peek for Book Week

A Book Peek for Book Week

Photograph

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Maker
French, 1908–2004

A Book Peek for Book Week

1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 9/16 × 6 1/2 in. (24.3 × 16.5 cm)
Paper: 10 1/8 × 7 15/16 in. (25.7 × 20.2 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0578
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, BC: 10/62 17) A BOOK PEEK FOR BOOK WEEK: On November 11 schools, libraries \ and bookstores throughout the U.S. begin the annual celebration of \ Children's Book Week. Revealing (among other things) the international \ delight which children take in books, this little Indonesian is fasci- \ nated by a book on American Indians. \ Credit: Henri Cartier-Bresson © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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