Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908-2004.(Artworld)(Obituary)

Art in America | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

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 ...

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