# Oh, Shoot! Henri Cartier-Bresson dies at 95! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-shoot-henri-cartier-bresson-dies-at-95/258320 "2004-08-04T17:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2004, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-shoot-henri-cartier-bresson-dies-at-95/258320/21 "2004-08-07T06:42:42Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > _No_ photography fans here?! I was going to reply when I first saw your OP but I was waiting for the decisive moment. I am ashamed to say my first reaction was “He (was) still alive?” I had somehow confinded him to the distant past…I wonder, had he been shooting anything recently? Nothing else to say but god that man was brilliant. His pictures do your soul good to look at them. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-shoot-henri-cartier-bresson-dies-at-95/258320/22 "2004-08-09T22:16:43Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > And if you’re a photographer who doesn’t know who Bresson is, get yourself to a library stat. While you’re there, check out work by Andre Kertesz and Brassai. And Paul Strand and Josef Sudek. (Kertesz is my all time favorite though.) ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-shoot-henri-cartier-bresson-dies-at-95/258320/23 "2004-08-10T02:57:02Z")
Eve, another wonderful thread title. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-shoot-henri-cartier-bresson-dies-at-95/258320.md?page=1)