Mexico

1933

First exhibitions: New York and Madrid

In 1933 his photographs were first exhibited at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York and then at the Ateneo Club in Madrid.

1934

He meets Chim, and through him Capa

In 1934 he met the young Polish intellectual and photographer David Szymin, known as “Chim” (later David Seymour), and through him the Hungarian photographer Endré Friedmann, the future Robert Capa; he would later found Magnum with them.

1934

In Mexico, a shared show with Álvarez Bravo

In 1934 in Mexico he shared an exhibition with Manuel Álvarez Bravo at the Palacio de Bellas Artes.

1935

A trip to the US: a show alongside Walker Evans

In 1935, on the invitation of the Julien Levy Gallery, he travelled to New York, where he shared the display space with Walker Evans and Manuel Álvarez Bravo.

1936–1939

Assistant and actor to Jean Renoir

On returning to France he applied for a job with the director Jean Renoir: he acted in “A Day in the Country” (1936) and in “The Rules of the Game” (1939), on which he was second assistant and played a butler, and in 1936 helped Renoir make “Life Belongs to Us”; Renoir made him act so that he would know how it felt to be on the other side of the camera.

1937

Married: Ratna Mohini