"Although he would later be feted as the father of photojournalism, Henry Cartier-Bresson was at his best when he was taking photos which didn’t ‘report’ anything — men in Parisian streets, sunbathers whether they be at Peter and Paul fortress or Coney Island. At the first glance, the above picture — one of Cartier-Bresson’s most famous — seems exactly like it: languorous workers in Juvisny spending a lazy afternoon on the bank of River Marne."
- Iconic Photos
An alternative view:
Craig Silver for Forbes Magazine: "At the working-class picnic on a river bank in France everyone is porcine and unlovely, the light is dreary, the grass is scraggly. It’s as if the photographer is saying, “How amusing that they think this is festive!”
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