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Article: Kingdoms of the world in a moment; Henri Cartier-Bresson.(Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose photographs defined the 20th century, died on August 3rd)(Obituary)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 7, 2004
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose photographs defined the 20th century, died on August 3rd at the age of 95
ALTHOUGH his name was familiar almost everywhere, far more so indeed than his work, Henri Cartier-Bresson himself was not a familiar sight. With his alert blue eyes and a coloured handkerchief knotted round his neck, he would wander the streets near his home on Paris's rue de Rivoli and seldom be recognised. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century was himself rarely photographed.
In his lifetime, he travelled to all corners of the earth, capturing images of some of the most extraordinary moments of 20th-century history--the Spanish civil ...