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Article: Why Cartier-Bresson, The Peintre Manque, Became Photographer.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2004
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
I was glad to see that The New York Times featured its obituary of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) on the front page. After all, no other photographer of his time lived and worked so long or commanded the admiration of so many artists, critics, editors, museum curators and connoisseurs of photography--not to mention the public at large--and none bore worldwide fame with a more appealing combination of intelligence, authority, insouciance and self-deprecating irony. In high spirits, Henri (as I shall speak of him here) was as amusing as his most amusing pictures, and he was certainly a master of comedy in many of his photographs. Yet what ...