The Leica Leonardo by John Banville
From the website: 'I don't believe in God,' he once said to me, 'but I do believe in pi,' and then wrote down some numbers on a table napkin which I recognised as the formula for the golden section, the mathematical rule of aesthetic balance which has been used by artists since antiquity.
From the website: These were inspired by the one photograph he admitted to having been influenced by, a shot of three naked black youths diving into Lake Tanganyika taken by a sports journalist turned photographer, Martin Munkacsi. Of this picture Cartier-Bresson later said, 'I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in moment.'
