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Sharpness is a bourgeois concept

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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Henri Cartier-Bresson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 22
Died: 2004
Died: January 1
Film Director
Journalist
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Henri Cartier Bresson
Henri Cartier- Bresson
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