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  • French Photo Legend Cartier-Bresson Dead

    08/04/2004 2:15:11 PM PDT · by Servant of the 9 · 19 replies · 757+ views
    Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 4 August, 2004 | Jon Boyle
    PARIS (Reuters) - Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the great photographers of the 20th century and a founding father of modern photojournalism, has died aged 95, family friends said Wednesday. A founder of the Magnum picture agency in 1947 who admirers dubbed "the eye of the century," Cartier-Bresson died in the south of France Monday, LCI television channel said. The Web site of newspaper Liberation said the photographer, an intensely private man, was buried Wednesday in a quiet family ceremony at Monjustin, in the Provence region. "France has lost a photographer of genius, a true master, one of the most...