Françoise Bornstein, Sitdown Gallery, Paris: In 1963 Vice President Johnson visited the American Farm School. He presented the School with a tractor. The School in turn presented him with a baby donkey, the revered symbol of his party. But the gift created an insoluble logistics problem for the Secret Service; so the decision was taken to leave the creature behind, in the custody of the School. No one dared to ask him to work again. This image was of course inspired by Cartier-Bresson’s 1932 image of the Allée du Prado in Marseille, with its distinguished mustachioed gentleman with cloak and umbrella standing on a sidewalk defined by two rows of trees.
