Aug
19
2004
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Causes and effects of the ‘death of photojournalism’

"From this day, the painting is dead", Paul Delaroche exclaimed when he saw the first Daguerreotype in 1839. He turned out to be wrong about the bit about the art of painting being dead, but photography certainly had a profound impact on our way of life.
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Aug
05
2004
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Bresson’s passing away on the 5th of august 2004 brings the death to 95 years of photo history. To say that the man singlehandedly invented the genre of professional photojournalism would not be much of an exaggeration – he will be sorely missed.
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