Photographer Cartier-Bresson has died

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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 on 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 on Monday, LCI television channel said.

The Web Site of newspaper Liberation said the photographer, an intensely private man, was buried on Wednesday in a quiet family ceremony at Monjustin, in the Provence region.

"He was the greatest. What he saw was extraordinary," said Goksin Sipahioglu, founder of Sipa Press photo agency. "He was a great and humble man.

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1. Alas - the finest of the fine

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2. I love his work...

and I'm ashamed to say I wasn't aware that he was still alive. I wonder if he was aware of the jump in photo technologies we've seen on the past ten years? The leaps photography and the art have taken during is lifetime is amazing.

Wow, I think I'l have to dig through some of my photography books and savour some his images.