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Henri Cartier-Bresson.

“Le Monde” quotidien, France, 1985

West Berlin. The Berlin wall, 1962.

ITALY, Campania. 1960.

BELGIUM. Bruxelles. World’s Fair. 1958.

Derrière la gare Saint Lazare: 1932

Sukhumi on the Black Sea. Georgia, Abkhazia. 1954.

Rue Mouffetard, Paris. 1954

Paris, France. 1992

Children Playing in Ruins : Seville 1933

Children along Fibonacci spiral staircase, circa 1900.

HAMBURG, West Germany. December 1952-January 1953

Three girls running, Kyoto, Japan. 1965

Refugees: CHINA, Jiangsu. Nankin. April 1949.

Brie, France. June, 1968

Brussels, Belgium, 1932.

Natchez, Mississippi, United States. 1947

Lake Sevan, Armenia, Sovietic Union. 1972

Madrid, Spain. 1933.

Rue Mouffetard, 1954

Sifnos, Greece. 1961

Valencia, Spain. 1933

Cardinal Pacelli’s visit to Paris: France. 1938

Yankee Stadium, American football match: Bronx, New York City. 1947

Painter and Sculptor ‘Henri Matisse’: Vence, France. 1943

Kashmir, India. 1947

Seville, Spain. 1933

Boat passing through a lock. Wood is one of the main trades of Kashmir: India, Kashmir.

State of Oaxaca, Mexico. 1963

“On the Rhine”: Germany. 1956

‘Roman Amphitheater’: Valencia, Spain. 1933

A refugee camp for 300.000 people. Refugees exercising in the camp to drive away lethargy and despair: Punjab. Kurukshetra, India. Autumn 1947.

Hibiya district, Tokyo, Japan. 1965.

Mercado do Bolhão, Porto, Portugal.

New Year’s Eve, Times Square. 1959

A farewell service for the late actor Danjuro held on November 13th 1965 at the Aoyama Funeral Hall, (according to Shinto rites). Tokyo, Japan. 1965.

Final days of the Kuomintang. A peasant, whose market has closed down and came to Beijing to sell his vegetables, sits to eat his provisions. A shopkeeper resigns to have nothing more to sell in his store: Beijing, China. December 1948.

François Mauriac, Paris. 1952

Gujarat. Baroda (Vadodara), India. 1948

The cremation of GANDHI on the banks of the Sumna River. Gandhi’s secretary watches the first flames of the funeral pyre: Delhi, India. 1948

Tokyo, Japan. 1965

Writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre; Pont des Arts, Paris, France. 1946

Sweden. 1956

Louisiana, New Orleans. 1947.

Epirus, Greece. 1961

8th arrondissement. Courtyard on the rue la Boétie: Paris, France. 1953

French poet, André Breton, at his home. 18th arrondissement. Rue Pigalle. Paris, France. 1961

Rome, Italy. 1951

Los Remedios near Mexico City. 1963.

Puebla, Mexico. 1963

The Great Bazaar: Istanbul Turkey. 1964

Southern Holland, Netherlands. 1956

Republic of Kirgizstan, Soviet Union. 1972

Lunchtime rest in the shipyards: Bremen, West Germany. 1962

Kosovo, Prizren, Yugoslavie. 1965.

Lourdes, major place of Christian pilgrimage: Hautes-Pyrénées, France. 1958

Behind the statue of poet Frédéric Mistral, Arles. 1959

In the old town: Gujarat, Ahmedabad, India. 1966

Manhattan, New York, United States. 1947

France, 1987

René Burri.

SWITZERLAND. Zurich. 20 November 1946. British Prime Minister, Winston CHURCHILL on his visit to University where he delivered his historic speech “Europe arise !” (in French: “Europe lève-toi !”). First picture taken by René Burri, at age 13.

ITALY. Lombardia region. Town of Milan. 1953. Palazzo Reale. PICASSO exhibition showing “Guernica”. This monumental canvas which became an international symbol of the Spanish Republican cause. The city was completely destroyed by an air raid on the 29th April 1937, it was claimed that the bombing had not been done by the Nationalist forces, but by the Condor Legion of the German air force under the direction of Franco’s government

FRANCE. 1955. Inauguration of the chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut, built by LE CORBUSIER.

FRANCE. Ile-de-France region. Paris. 1959. 7th arrondissement. 35, rue de Sèvres. The painter, architect and city planner LE CORBUSIER in the “Atelier 35 S”. On the left: a lithograph of his “Modulor”.

ITALY. 1955. Province of Liguria. Town of Imperia Oneglia.

FRANCE. Paris. Boulogne Billancourt studios. The Swedish actress Ingrid BERGMAN during the filming of “Elena and Her Men” (“Elena et les hommes”) by French director Jean RENOIR. 1956.

FRANCE. Paris. 14th arrondissement. 1960. Rue Hippolyte Maindron. Alberto GIACOMETTI, Swiss painter & sculptor, at his studio.

GERMANY. West Berlin. 1959. The Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedachtniskirche (the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) bombed during the war and never restored.

FRANCE. Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur. Alpes Maritimes. Cannes. 1957. Villa “La Californie”, Spanish painter Pablo PICASSO.

“Men On a Rooftop” BRAZIL. Sao Paulo. 1960.

BRAZIL. 1960. Salvador de Bahia. Old market.

CUBA. Havana. Ministry of Industry. Ernesto Guevara (Che), Argentinian politician, Minister of industry (1961-1965) during an exclusive interview in his office.

EGYPT. Re-opening of Suez Canal, Al-Balah by-pass. International de-mining team holding protective position during explosion. Among them Rear Admiral Brian MCCAULEY who also participated to the mining of the port of Haiphong in North Vietnam. 1974.

Fort Rhotas. Located 109 kms from south of Rawalpindi. It was built in 1540s by Sher Shah Suri, and subsequently extended and developed by the Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Return of Archbishop MAKARIOS, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus , after 3 years of exile, to become chief Greek-Cypriot Minister in the new Greek-Turkish provisional government. He is welcomed as a hero and liberator.Here at the balcony of the Archbishopric claiming “We have triumphed”.

Southwest Iran. Khuzestan. Ruins of Shush, archeological site dating back from the 3rd millenium BC.

CHINA. Beijing. 1964. Former Summer Palace. Dead lotus flowers on the Kunming Lake.

Frank Horvat.

Beggar, Calcutta, India, 1953.

Paris, Saint-Lazare area, 1956.

Haute Couture Collections, Paris, 1951.

Mate with Jaguar, London, 1955.

1948, Italy, relic on a beach

1952, Lahore, Pakistan, hashish smokers

1952, Lahore, Pakistan, Hira Mandi, dancers’area

1952, near Lahore, Pakistan, harvest

t 1953, Bihar, India, Vinoba Bhave, preacher and politician, preaching to a crowd

1953, Elephanta Island, India, giant sculpture of the indian Trinity

David Seymour.

Young girl preparing for sentry duty, Haifa, Israel, 1951.

A little boy apprenticed to an open-air shoemakers’ shop, Naples, Italy, 1948.

Elefteria, the Only Child Not Evacuated from Her Remote Village, Oxia, Greece, 1947.

Françoise Sagan, St. Tropez, France, 1956.

Gérard Castello-Lopes

Lisboa, 1957

Lisbon, Portugal, 1956

Lisboa, Portugal

Algarve, Portugal, 1957

From all around.

Lost and Found : Jaspars

Egrem Studio.

Ruben and Jaspars.

Lost and Found.

Facing the audience at Carnegie hall.

Donata Wenders Omara and Ibrahim at mic in Egrem.

Sanchez Haimel

Idris Muhammad performing in San Francisco, California. Circa 1979

Idris Muhammad

Alice Springs

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