Autoportrait, Coronado, New Mexico, 1973/83.

Photograph: René Burri/Magnum Photos

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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René Burri, Maarad Street. Beirut, Lebanon, 1991

René Burri, Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, 1989

René Burri, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1960

René Burri, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1984

René Burri,Le Corbusier and his "Modulor" in his office, 35 rue de Sèvres.

Paris, France, 1959

Ernesto (Che) Guevara, during an exclusive interview in his office in Havana, Cuba in 1963. 

The Ching Chung Hwa family having lunch under Mao Zedong’s portrait at the People’s commune of Ma Cheo, China, 1964.

René Burri, A worker from Nordeste shows his family the new city on inauguration day.
In the background: the National Congress building by Oscar Niemeyer. Brasilia, Brazil, 1960

Pablo Picasso at his home, the Villa La Californie in Cannes, 1957. Burri first met Picasso when he was 24.

René Burri, Ministry of Health, planned by architect Oscar Niemeyer. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1960

Zurich, Switzerland, 1980.

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