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Article: Henri Cartier-Bresson's last decisive moment.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
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- September 1, 2004
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier (1922-2004)
Pierre Gassmann (1914-2004)
Carl Mydans (1907-2004)
Van Deren Coke (1921-2004)
A lot has been written, and more will be, about the life in photography of Henri Cartier-Bresson. If Europe contributed to the medium in the twentieth century. Cartier-Bresson, a.k.a. HCB. probably stood among the best. If not the spear-head of its protagonists. For decades, this now world-famous photographer tried to seize the essence of his time, and crystallize it in the fraction of a second within the frame of his viewfinder. Once he had picked it up, back in the early ...