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Photojournalism pioneer dies
From Mahatma Gandhi's funeral to portraits of William Faulkner or Chinese revolutionaries, Cartier-Bresson was a pioneer in photojournalism whose pictures defined the mid-20th century and inspired generations of photographers. Yet he was famously averse to having his own picture taken and in later years turned away from photography to the love of his youth, painting.
A statement from his family and Magnum, the photo agency that Cartier-Bresson co-founded, said he died Tuesday morning at his home in the southwestern Luberon region, and funeral services were held privately Wednesday in the nearby Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region. A memorial service is planned for early September, it said.
"The world of photojournalism has lost its soul," Goksin Sipahioglu, the founder of Sipa photo agency, told France-Info radio.
Gary Knight, managing director of VII, another photo agency, said Cartier-Bresson "defined photography at that crucial period when small cameras were coming into fashion and its entire nature was changing."
To make the camera as unobtrusive as the human eye, he went so far as to tape over its silvery parts in black and would keep it hidden under a handkerchief until the critical moment. The aim was always to capture something of his subject's inner essence to pinpoint "a relationship between the eye and the heart."
"With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without," he once said in a rare interview.
Most of his international fame was generated from publication in leading magazines like Life, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and prestigious exhibitions, notably a 1947 one-man exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
He was also fascinated by cinema, assisting French director Jean Renoir on the classic "The Rules of the Game" and making two notable documentaries of his own one about medical aid to the loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and another about French prisoners of war returning home at the end of World War II.
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