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    Sep 09, 2023 4 minutes

    LETTER OF THE WEEK

    My favourite photograph

    I read John Wade’s Final Analysis, AP 8 August, with great interest. His admiration of Bill Brandt’s ‘Morning On Tower Bridge’ mirrors my admiration of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ‘Picnic on the Banks of the Marne’, and for many of the same reasons. This is probably my favourite photograph of all time.

    At a glance everything about it is wrong but it holds together beautifully. A family portrait with just one face partly visible. The actions of four of them tell the story of the picnic but it takes a while to find the fifth person. The boat seems somehow wrong, but feels right. Cartier-Bresson was famous for his street photographs taken at ‘the

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