Bruno Barbey, Magnum Photographer of War and Peace, Dies at 79

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Mort de Bruno Barbey, reporter coloriste
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2020/11/10/mort-de-bruno-barbey-reporter-coloriste_6059263_3246.html

Figure de l’agence Magnum, le reporter, tôt passé à la couleur, a photographié tous les grands conflits pendant cinquante ans, même s’il préférait capter les lumières de son Maroc natal. Il est mort le 9 novembre à l’âge de 79 ans.

Bruno Barbey: Disappearance of a photographic great
▻https://www.global-geneva.com/bruno-barbey-disappearance-of-a-photographic-great

As a Moroccan-born French-Swiss photojournalist focusing on global themes that sought to document conflict and celebrate beauty ranging from May ’68 in Paris and Solidarność in Poland to China, India, Burma and Korea, Bruno Barbey ranked among the best alongside Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Steve McCurry, Cindy Sherman, Sebastao Salgado, David Burnett, Catherine Leroy, Don McCullin, Marc Riboud… His death on 9 November, 2020 at the age of 79 has left a poignant gap. We have asked some of his friends and former colleagues to comment on this exceptional “recorder of disappearing history and life” as Barbey, a long-time member of the renowned Magnum photo agency, once phrased it.

Bruno Barbey, Magnum Photographer of War and Peace, Dies at 79
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/arts/bruno-barbey-dead.html

He was “a formidable visual architect” who captured the streets of Paris during the violent demonstrations in 1968 and documented the human experience in other parts of the world.

▻https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/22/the-big-picture-underwater-cycling-with-bruno-barbey-a-boy-plays-in-the

▻https://next.liberation.fr/images/2020/11/09/bruno-barbey-l-incarnation-discrete-du-photojournaliste_1805096

Bruno Barbey obituary
Monday November 30 2020
▻https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bruno-barbey-obituary-bvf6kc35m

Magnum photojournalist who captured communities in the throes of change, most famously the 1968 student riots in Paris