biography
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Cartier-Bresson, Henri
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pronunciation:
[ka(r)tyay bresõ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908– )
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in Paris, France. He studied painting and literature before taking up photography after a trip to Africa (1930). His first pictures were published in 1933. In the later 1930s he worked as assistant to the film director Jean Renoir, and after the war was a co-founder of the independent photographic agency, Magnum Photos. He works only in black-and-white, concerned exclusively with the capturing of visual moments illustrating contemporary life. His books include The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1968). In the mid-1970s he gave up photography, and returned to his earlier interests of painting and drawing. |
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