This is how Cartier-Bresson lived his life, not merely traveling, but living abroad without thinking about when he would return home. This is not a quibble, for it is a different way of approaching the world. His work is full of it. There is an echo too of the sculptor Rodin, who says: ‘What you make with time, time respects.’ That is why a straightforward inventory of events in such a man’s life will always yield far less than an attempt to explore the shadows cast by some of them on his memory as well as on ours.