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>>192416 I think he's both, actually.
I do personally think it's preferable for a variety of reasons for a photographer to develop his own film/process his own raw files, but if someone prefers to work another way, that's fine. Art is, from beginning to end, subjective.
HCB started out as a painter, trained classically with his uncle (a painter) and, after his uncle was killed in WWI, in a studio, and associated with the surrealists. In 1930, he left the studio, went to live in Africa, and while there switched to photography because "The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world."
Later in life (around the early 1970s, IIRC) he went back to doing mostly painting.
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