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Article: Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908-2004.(Artworld)(Obituary)
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- Art in America
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- October 1, 2004
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Henri Cartier-Bresson, influential photographer and co-founder of Magnum Photos, died at his home in southern France on Aug. 3, shortly before his 96th birthday on Aug. 22. With a background in painting and drawing, Cartier-Bresson became internationally renowned, beginning in the mid-1930s, for photographs that critics have described as a unique merger of photojournalism and fine-art photography. One of the first proponents of the lightweight 35mm Leica camera, which he used throughout his career, Cartier-Bresson was early on regarded as a master of "the decisive moment," a technique that aimed to capture in a photo the precise instant defining an action, scene or ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;
612 words
...Henri Cartier-Bresson , 1908-2004, French photojournalist ... Transition (1956), The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1968), The Face of Asia ... 1974), and the retrospective Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer (1992). A founder ...
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