![Image of Once Elegant Burma](https://lostfootsteps.org/storage/app/media/images/268215723232418_455736384480350.jpg)
event_note History Timeline
1948
Image of Once Elegant Burma
people Henri Cartier-Bresson
A photograph was taken shortly after independence in 1948 by the great French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Shwedagon Pagoda. It shows a Burma, perhaps a more elegant Burma, that may have been lost forever.
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