René Burri – in pictures
Swiss photographer René Burri has died at the age of 81. Burri became an associate of Magnum in 1955 and travelled almost incessantly for the next two decades, working on commissions for the New York Times, Vogue, Paris-Match, Time, and Der Stern
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Autoportrait, Coronado, New Mexico, 1973/83.
Photograph: René Burri/Magnum Photos
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Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1960.
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Ernesto (Che) Guevara, during an exclusive interview in his office in Havana, Cuba in 1963. Featured in My Best Shot.
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The Ching Chung Hwa family having lunch under Mao Zedong’s portrait at the People’s commune of Ma Cheo, China, 1964.
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Pablo Picasso at his home, the Villa La Californie in Cannes, 1957. Burri first met Picasso when he was 24.
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Zurich, Switzerland, 1980.
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René Burri at the Elysee museum in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2004. He died on 20 October, aged 81, at the University Hospital, Zurich after a long battle with cancer.
Photograph: Sandro Campardo/EPA
