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Rene Burri: the analogic clown"I never thought I would become a photographer." he said when he met Henri Cartier-Bresson who helped him become one of the most powerful street photographer world has ever known (in my opinion). His secret: "don't take it seriously!"Rene Burri: the analogic clown by *jimbeam166
René Burri studied at the School of Applied Arts in his native city of Zurich, Switzerland. From 1953 to 1955 he worked as a documentary film-maker and began to use a Leica while doing his military service. Burri became an associate of Magnum in 1955 and received international attention for one of his first reportages, on deaf-mute children, 'Touch of Music for the Deaf', published in Life magazine.
In 1956 he traveled throughout Europe and the Middle East, and then went to Latin America, where he made a series on the gauchos that was published by Du magazine in 1959. It was also for this Swiss periodical that he photographed artists such as Picasso, Giacometti and Le Corbusier. He became a full member of Magnum in 1959, and started work on h
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