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Article: Acclaimed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson dies at age 95.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 5, 2004
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Byline: Edward J. Sozanski
Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the most prolific, talented and influential photographers of the 20th century, has died in his native France at age 95.
Cartier-Bresson was a giant of the medium not only because he captured some of the most memorable images ever fixed to paper, but because his influence on other photographers, especially photojournalists, has been widespread and profound, and continues to this day.
He will be remembered for pictures that record the thinnest, most ephemeral slices of everyday life, but that almost paradoxically, given the flow of ordinariness from which they were plucked, seem ...