Revolutionary French photographer Cartier-Bresson dead at 95
AFP, August, 2004
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PARIS (AFP) ? Veteran French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who has died at the age of 95, was universally hailed as one of the most influential image-makers of the last century.
Born in August 1908 to a bourgeois family in a small town east of Paris, Cartier-Bresson took up photography in the 1930s after first studying painting.
After World War II, he co-founded the Magnum photo agency, and his pictures now hang in art galleries all over the world.
Shooting only black-and-white film, shunning artificial light and refusing to crop his pictures, he is seen by critics as one of the generation of photographers responsible for elevating what had been a hobby or a profession into a fully-fledged art form.
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