Photo History Summer School – August 22

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Photo History Summer School – August 22

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Aug 26, 2008

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We bring the summer school sessions to a close with a rememberance of the 100th birthday of the great photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson. Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Hyères, France, 1932”

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Aug 26, 2008

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