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Let's assume that all the cassettes of monochrome film Cartier-Bresson ever exposed had somehow been surreptitiously loaded with colour film. I'd venture to say that about two thirds of his pictures would be ruined and the remainder unaffected, neither spoiled nor improved. And perhaps one in a thousand enhanced.

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Philip Jones Griffiths
Age: 72 †
Born: 1936
Born: February 18
Died: 2008
Died: March 19
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