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5th August 2004

The Acknowledged Master of the Moment

“Henri Cartier-Bresson, 95, who revolutionized photography as an art and a reporting tool by capturing what he called ‘the decisive moment,’ died Tuesday at his home in the southwestern Luberon region of France. No cause of death was provided. Whether taking pictures of French resistance fighters and Gestapo informers during World War II, the death of Gandhi, a grizzled eunuch during the Communist revolution in China or a slew of celebrity shots, he was the epitome of the photographer who was at the right place at the right time ó all the time.”

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5th August 2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Artist Who Used Lens, Dies at 95

“Henri Cartier-Bresson, who used his tiny, hand-held 35-millimeter Leica camera to bear humane witness to many of the 20th century’s biggest events, from the Spanish Civil War to the German occupation of France to the partition of India to the Chinese revolution to the French student uprisings of 1968, died on Tuesday at his home in Southwest France. He was 95.”

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