Henri-Cartier Bresson C'est Mort
"Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose instantly recognisable images graced magazines and newspapers around the world, has died aged 96. The shy, intense Frenchman, regarded as the founding father of photo-journalism, died on Monday at Isle sur la Sorgue, in the south of France, according to French media reports. Cartier-Bresson, founder of Magnum, one of the world's most influential and enduring photo-agencies, was born in 1908 in Chanteloupe, France ... Initially an art student in Paris in the late1920s, he abandoned his avant-set to spend a year in the African bush as a hunter. On his return in 1931, illness forced him into convalescence in Marseilles where he purchased a Leica camera, thus starting the career of arguably one of the 20th century's greatest photographers."
Guardian Unlimited | Arts news | Father of photo-journalism, Cartier-Bresson, dies at 96
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Wednesday, August 04, 2004
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