I stumbled across some clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine I tore away when I was in California in the summer of 2006 for the work and travel programme. The reason I stacked them away is because they featured an article on a French photographer Michelle Vignes, who continues to document American life from her base in SF. Her snapshots of the black community, which she has been tracing since the 60s with the special focus on music and musicians, and the American natives, revealing their age-old rituals and changing status, command the highest respect, both for her craftsmanship as a photographer and her thorough immersion in the cultures she portrays.
It came as no surprise to me, after seeing her shots, that she'd worked under the wings of Henri Cartier-Bresson for some time. Her photos, with their sensitivity, attention to cultural detail and insider's perspective, are evocative of style associated with Bresson and Magnum Photos.
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