Cartier-Bresson dies aged 95

LEGENDARY photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who travelled the world for more than a half century capturing human drama on film, has died in France, French media reported last night. He was 95.

Cartier-Bresson shot for Life, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar magazines and his work inspired generations of photographers. Cartier-Bresson became a French national treasure, though he was famously averse to having his own picture taken.

Cartier-Bresson made two acclaimed documentary films, one about loyalists in the Spanish Civil War and one about French prisoners of war returning home at the end of World War II.