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Masked For Men'S Work

Photographer Dennis Stock

holding camera to his face so that the lens

looks like his right eye & viewfinder his left.

Location: US

Date taken: June 1951

Photograph: Andreas Feininger

Life Images

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Daniel Kramer    USA    1932-2024

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jun/09/
daniel-kramer-obituary

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/
arts/music/daniel-kramer-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/
arts/music/daniel-kramers-year-with-bob-dylan.html

David S. Johnson    USA    1926-2024

"Boy and Lincoln, 1963"

Photograph: David Johnson

The David Johnson Photograph Archive,

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

Photographer David Johnson,

who chronicled San Francisco's Black culture,

dies at 97

NPR

MARCH 17, 2024    5:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/
1239005042/photographer-david-johnson-san-francisco-black-culture-dead

David Johnson generally wasn't interested

in people posing for his camera.

As the photographer

and civil rights activist

put it in a 2017 interview

at the University of California, Berkeley:

"A big smiling photograph?

That wasn't my style."

(...)

Johnson was the first Black student

of the famous nature photographer

Ansel Adams and became known

as one of the foremost chroniclers

of San Francisco's Black urban culture.

(...)

Johnson was born in 1926

in Jacksonville, Fla.,

to an impoverished single mother

who handed her baby off

to be raised by a cousin.

In a 2013 interview

with San Francisco member station KQED,

Johnson said he got his first camera

by selling magazine subscriptions

door-to-door.

"I just started snapping pictures

around the neighborhood.

And I got kind of fascinated with that,"

he said.

Johnson was drafted into the U.S. Navy

right out of high school.

He was stationed in San Francisco,

falling in love with the city,

and was then sent to the Philippines

for the remainder of World War II.

After returning, he wanted

to develop his photography skills

in college.

It was 1946,

and budding photographers

were clamoring to get into the program

that master lensman Adams=

had just launched

at the California School of Fine Arts

in San Francisco.

Its star-studded faculty included

Minor White, Imogen Cunningham,

Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange.

Johnson wanted in.

So he sent Adams a letter.

"I wrote to Ansel and said,

'I'm interested in studying photography.

I have the GI Bill.

And I would like for you

to evaluate my [application].'

Ansel wrote me back and said,

'There are no vacancies in the class,' "

he told KQED.

But a student dropped out,

making room for Johnson.

He hopped on a segregated train

that took him from Jacksonville

to San Francisco.

After living in Adams' house

for a while,

he eventually found a low-rent room

in the city's Fillmore District

and started taking lots of photos.

(...)

And he used his camera

to spark conversations about civil rights.

"There's one really iconic photograph

of a woman listening to a speech

and she's got kind

of a dubious look on her face,

but in her glasses are reflected

the American flag," Hult-Lewis said.

"There's another incredible photograph

of a young African American boy sitting,

holding an American flag

in the embrace of a sculpture

of Abraham Lincoln."

Johnson also often participated

in direct political action.

He attended the 1963 March on Washington,

and organized the first Black caucus

at the University of California,

San Francisco.

"He was part of a group that successfully sued

the San Francisco Unified School District

to compel them

to more fully desegregate the schools,"

Hult-Lewis said.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/
1239005042/photographer-david-johnson-san-francisco-black-culture-dead

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David_Johnson_(photographer)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/apr/13/
david-johnson-san-francisco-photographer-fillmore-district

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/
1239005042/photographer-david-johnson-san-francisco-black-culture-dead

Peter Magubane    SA    1932-2024

Marvin Elliott Newman    USA    1927-2023

Marvin E Newman,

the son of a family of bakers

from the Bronx, New York,

had dreams of being a painter

or a sculptor.

After hitchhiking to art school in Chicago

after the second world war

he found a different way

to express that ambition:

he became a celebrated photographer

during the golden age of American magazines,

among the first to understand

the possibilities of colour for publications

that included Sports Illustrated and Esquire.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/10/
photographer-marvin-e-newman-wilshire-boulevard-los-angeles-1966

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Marvin_E._Newman

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/10/
photographer-marvin-e-newman-wilshire-boulevard-los-angeles-1966

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/
arts/marvin-newman-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/24/
marvin-e-newman-best-photograph-1950s-coney-island

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/may/13/
marvin-e-freeman-city-of-lights-new-york-photos

Larry Fink    USA    1941-2023

English Speaking Union, New York, 1975

A self-described Marxist,

Fink grew up in a politicised family that scorned the free market,

yet happily enjoyed the trappings of a moneyed life

such as chic automobiles and classy parties

Photograph: Larry Fink

‘From the counterculture to high society’:

Larry Fink’s career in pictures

Whether shooting civil rights marches or Studio 54 style icons,

the politically conscious photographer – who died last month –

cast a critical eye on the American class system

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/dec/06/
from-the-counterculture-to-high-society-larry-finks-career-in-pictures

His black-and-white images

captured the chilly anomie

of Manhattan’s haute monde,

the strangeness of Hollywood royalty

and the lively warmth of rural America.

(...)

kinetic photographer

whose intimate black-and-white

on-the-fly portraits of rural Pennsylvanians,

Manhattan society figures,

Hollywood royalty, boxers, musicians,

fashion models and many others

were both social commentary

on class and privilege

and an exuberant document

of the human condition

(...)

Mr. Fink was a Brooklyn-born lefty

whose early work, in the late 1950s,

chronicled the second-generation Beats

who were his cohort in the East Village,

where he lived for a time,

along with the jazz musicians he adored

(he played the harmonica)

and the protagonists of the civil rights

and antiwar movements.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/
arts/larry-fink-dead.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Larry_Fink_(photographer)

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/dec/06/
from-the-counterculture-to-high-society-larry-finks-career-in-pictures

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/
arts/larry-fink-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/28/
larry-fink-dead-photographer

Simpson Kalisher    USA    1926-2023

A 1960 photo by Simpson Kalisher

captures a city in motion.

“His most distinguishing feature

was his social empathy and imagination,”

the author Lucy Sante said.

Photographer: Simpson Kalisher

via Keith de Lellis Gallery

Simpson Kalisher, Photographer Who Captured Urban Grit, Dies at 96

He emerged from a largely commercial background

to join the towering figures who defined an art form

— street photography — in the 1950s and ’60s.

NYT

Published July 26, 2023

Updated July 27, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/
arts/simpson-kalisher-dead.html

Simpson Kalisher (...)

liberated his lens from slick images

in corporate reports and trade magazines

to emerge as a discerning photojournalist

whose street scenes froze

the panorama of urban American life

in the 1950s and ’60s

(...)

A Bronx native, Mr. Kalisher

“was one of the last survivors

of that generation of dynamic

New York street photographers

born in the 1920s

and employed at first by the magazines,

a group that included Robert Frank,

Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand,”

Lucy Sante, who wrote the foreword

to Mr. Kalisher’s book

“The Alienated Photographer” (2011),

said in an email.

“His most distinguishing feature

was his social empathy and imagination.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/
arts/simpson-kalisher-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/
arts/simpson-kalisher-dead.html

Elise Steiner / Lisl Steiner   Austria, USA    1927-2023

flamboyant photojournalist

who was celebrated

for her intimate, emotive images

of history-tilting figures

like Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy

and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

as well as luminaries of music,

stage and sports

(...)

Shooting for publications

including Newsweek, Time, Life

and National Geographic,

Ms. Steiner was known

for her flamboyant attire,

her trademark explosion of fiery red hair,

her sassy personality and her uncanny knack

for connecting with her subjects,

whom she jokingly referred to

as “victims.”

(...)

Elise Steiner

(“Lisl” was a family nickname that stuck)

was born on Nov. 19, 1927, in Vienna,

the only child of Arnold and Katrina Steiner.

Her father was a sports physical therapist

and soccer referee.

Her mother was Jewish,

and the family fled to Buenos Aires

after Germany annexed Austria in March 1938,

escaping the concentration camps

that claimed many members of her mother’s family.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/
arts/lisl-steiner-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/
arts/lisl-steiner-dead.html

Jessica May Burstein    USA    1947-2023

 photographer who in extended assignments

captured three quintessentially New York institutions

— the “Law & Order” television franchise,

the new Yankee Stadium as it was being built

and the restaurant and celebrity hangout Elaine’s —

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/
arts/jessica-burstein-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/
arts/jessica-burstein-dead.html

Neal Boenzi    USA    1925-2023

In 1956,

Mr. Boenzi captured

an employee of the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker

protesting the seizure of its records.

Photograph: Neal Boenzi

The New York Times

Neal Boenzi, Top New York Times Photographer for Four Decades, Dies at 97

He built a reputation for finding compelling subjects on the street.

“Anyone can take a picture,” he liked to say, “but are you a journalist?”

NYT

April 5, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/
business/media/neal-boenzi-dead.html

photographer who for more than 40 years

at The New York Times

deftly captured aspects of city life

from firefighters fleeing a falling wall

to a man walking a goose,

(...)

Mr. Boenzi’s photographs

usually accompanied

breaking news coverage and longer articles.

But they also included

many so-called day shots:

photographs he took

when he was told to be creative

and find pictures

that brightened readers’ days.

“There’s an aspect of Weegee

in his photographs,

that grittiness of New York,

but with a lighter touch, less macabre,”

Fred Ritchin, dean emeritus

of the International Center of Photography,

said in a phone interview, referring

to the celebrated New York City

tabloid photographer of the 1930s and ’40s.

“Maybe even a New York version of the humanism

that one sees in the work of French photographers

such as Robert Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/
business/media/neal-boenzi-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/
business/media/neal-boenzi-dead.html

Kwame Brathwaite    USA    1938-2023

Photographer Kwame Brathwaite

(...)

helped popularize

the "Black is Beautiful" movement

of the 1960s

(...)

 From Nelson Mandela to Muhammad Ali

and the so-called Grandassa Models,

Brathwaite's work embraced

Black power and beauty.

He chronicled events such as

The Motown Revue at the Apollo in 1963,

The Jackson 5's first trip to Africa in 1974,

and the legendary Foreman-Ali fight,

The Rumble in the Jungle.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/04/
1167908950/kwame-brathwaite-obituary-black-is-beautiful

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/04/
1167908950/kwame-brathwaite-obituary-black-is-beautiful

Marilyn Stafford    USA    1925-2023

born Marilyn Jean Gerson

With her images of models on the streets of Paris

and refugees fleeing the Algerian war of independence,

(she) blazed a trail for female photographers

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/02/
paris-beirut-delhi-marilyn-staffords-globe-straddling-photography-in-pictures

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/140823/
la-fee-du-sans-logis-marilyn-stafford-photographe-pharamineuse

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/
arts/marilyn-stafford-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/02/
paris-beirut-delhi-marilyn-staffords-globe-straddling-photography-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/nov/05/
the-fashion-photography-of-marilyn-stafford-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2018/nov/04/
pret-a-porter-marliyn-stafford-1960-paris-montmartre

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/03/
marilyn-stafford-best-photograph-albert-einstein

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/apr/29/
the-chic-and-the-shabby-paris-in-the-1950s-by-marilyn-stafford

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/29/
marilyn-stafford-photography

Anna Jacoba Westra    Netherlands, NZ    1936-2023

known as Ans Westra

Westra was born in the Netherlands

and moved to New Zealand

in the 1950s.

Over 64 years, she documented life

in New Zealand and overseas,

with the images now housed

in a large vault in Wellington.

A selection of these

are being digitally catalogued

through the National Library

of New Zealand.

Her work varied widely

– from landscapes and street life,

to gangs and the domestic everyday –

but she is perhaps best known

for capturing Māori communities

at a time of great social change,

which prompted both acclaim

and controversy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/
new-zealand-gallery-hunts-for-thousands-of-people-
captured-by-famed-photographer-ans-westra

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ans_Westra

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/09/
new-zealand-gallery-hunts-for-thousands-of-people-
captured-by-famed-photographer-ans-westra

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/mar/02/
new-zealand-maori-life-captured-by-famed-photographer-ans-westra-picture-essay

Tony Vaccaro    USA    1922-2022

 born Michelantonio Celestino Onofrio Vaccaro

After carrying a camera across battlefields,

he became a magazine photographer

known for his images of famous subjects

like Georgia O’Keeffe and Greta Garbo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/
arts/tony-vaccaro-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/
arts/tony-vaccaro-dead.html

Henry Maxwell Grossman    USA    1936-2022

photographer who was best known

for his formal portraits of celebrities

and other public figures

— but who also, less famously,

immortalized the Beatles on film

in thousands of unscripted antics

while juggling a side career

as a Metropolitan Opera tenor

and a Broadway bit player —

(...)
 

Mr. Grossman produced paradigmatic portraits

of Eleanor Roosevelt, Richard M. Nixon,

Elizabeth Taylor, Martha Graham,

Leontyne Price, Leonard Bernstein

and Nelson Mandela.

He photographed

new Metropolitan Opera productions

for Time magazine

and was the official photographer

for many Broadway shows.

His portraits of John F. Kennedy

and Lyndon B. Johnson

were published on the front page

of The New York Times on Nov. 23, 1963,

accompanying the news that the young president

had been assassinated in Dallas

and succeeded by his vice president

the day before.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/
arts/henry-grossman-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/
arts/henry-grossman-dead.html

Douglas Morley Kirkland    Canada, USA    1934-2022

a noted photojournalist

and portraitist

whose subjects included

Marilyn Monroe

wrapped in a silk sheet

and Coco Chanel at work

in her Paris atelier

(...)

For more than 60 years,

Mr. Kirkland was a leading

celebrity photographer,

first for Look and Life magazines

and then as a freelancer

for various magazines,

Hollywood studios

and advertising agencies.

Courteous and exuberant

— he was no annoying paparazzo —

Mr. Kirkland was welcomed

into stars’ homes and hotel rooms

and onto movie sets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/
arts/douglas-kirkland-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/
arts/douglas-kirkland-dead.html

Eamonn McCabe    UK    1948-2022

Football fans at Bradford football club in 1988.

Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

The Guardian

Eamonn McCabe – a life in pictures

Guardian photographer

and former head of photography Eamonn McCabe

has died at 74.

We look back at his iconic work

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eammon-mccabe-a-life-in-pictures

 one of the most

celebrated and admired

newspaper photographers

and picture editors

of his generation

(...)

McCabe was a multi-award-winning

sports photographer

at the Observer from 1976

and later became a trailblazing

picture editor of the Guardian

at a key moment in its history.

His third act was as a portrait photographer,

with 29 examples of his work

in the collection

of the National Portrait Gallery.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/03/
guardian-observer-photographer-eamonn-mccabe-dies

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/
eamonnmccabe

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2018/may/21/
own-limited-edition-print-sports-photographer-eamonn-mccabe

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/03/
eammon-mccabe-a-life-in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/03/
guardian-observer-photographer-eamonn-mccabe-dies

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/30/
eamonn-mccabe-lemmy-obituary-letter

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/28/
heysel-stadium-tragedy-liverpool-juventus-eamonn-mccabe

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/16/
landscape-photography-eamonn-mccabe

Roger Bamber    UK    1944-2022

Old Bailey Bomb, 1973

Bamber:

‘An IRA car bomb blew up the west front of the Old Bailey

on a terrible day of tension and bomb scares in London.

I ran down Fleet Street and,

as I ducked past the police trying to rope off the area,

I saw this barrister being rescued.

His ripped, blood-soaked shirt, dazed gaze and bandaged head

told the whole story in a frame.

Later, a box of cheese and wine from El Vino’s,

the legal watering hole of choice in Fleet Street,

was delivered to me.

A card inside from the barrister James Crespi read:

‘Dear Roger, thank you for the best portrait of me ever taken’

A life less ordinary: Roger Bamber’s state of the nation – in pictures

An IRA bomb victim,

a miniature railway obsessive and Thatcher with a handful of cow dung

– these superb images tell a vivid tale of Britain

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Tue 4 Apr 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/apr/04/
a-life-less-ordinary-roger-bambers-state-of-the-nation-in-pictures

Photojournalist

who covered war, politics and music

for newspapers from the Sun

to the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/apr/04/
a-life-less-ordinary-roger-bambers-state-of-the-nation-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/22/
roger-bamber-obituary

Steve Schapiro    USA    1934-2022

We Shall Overcome, 1964

Students during the summer of 1964 in Oxford, Ohio

Photograph: Steve Schapiro

Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery

Ali to Andy W: Steve Schapiro’s life in photography – in pictures

The activist, documentarian and photographer, who has died aged 87,

captured the American civil rights movement

while shooting the likes of David Bowie and Robert Kennedy

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Tue 18 Jan 2022    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jan/18/
ali-to-andy-warhol-steve-schapiros-life-in-photography-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jan/18/
ali-to-andy-warhol-steve-schapiros-life-in-photography-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/dec/19/
steve-schapiro-heroic-times-in-pictures

Sabine Weiss    Switzerland    1924-2021

Metro, 1955

 Petticoats over Broadway:

entrancing shots of New York in the 1950s – in pictures

The bright lights and full skirts of mid-20th century New York

are effortlessly captured in Sabine Weiss’s

poignant pictures of the city that never sleeps

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/01/
new-york-1950s-sabine-weiss-in-pictures 

Cheval, 1952.

Photograph: Sabine Weiss

via Holden Luntz Gallery

Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97

Like Robert Doisneau and Brassaï,

she shot life in postwar Paris as it really was.

But she also won fame for her reporting and fashion work.

NYT

January 4, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/
arts/sabine-weiss-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/
arts/sabine-weiss-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/31/
sabine-weiss-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/03/
sabine-weiss-interview-photographer-pompidou-paris

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/01/
new-york-1950s-sabine-weiss-in-pictures

Michael David Rock / Mick Rock

(born Michael Edward Chester Smith)

UK    1948-2021

The 'man who shot the 70s',

capturing classic images

of Blondie, Bowie and Queen,

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/23/
photographer-mick-rock-blondie-bowie-queen-miley-cyrus

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/
1057450818/mick-rock-photographer-bowie-queen-blondie-dead

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/19/
mick-rock-music-photographer-dies-david-bowie-queen

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/31/
photographer-mick-rock-social-media-means-we-wont-see-another-lou-reed

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/23/
photographer-mick-rock-blondie-bowie-queen-miley-cyrus

Tom Stoddart    UK    1953-2021

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/18/
berlin-wall-blair-battlebus-tom-stoddart-career-in-pictures

Colin Jones    UK    1936-2021

Sophie Rivera    USA    1938-2021

photographer of Latin New York

Her portraits

of fellow Puerto Rican New Yorkers

could be both majestic and tender.

She was also a constant

street photographer

and later made herself her subject.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/
arts/sophie-rivera-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/
arts/sophie-rivera-dead.html

Katherine Lahusen    USA    1930-2021

gay rights activist and photographer

She and her partner, Barbara Gittings,

were on the front lines

long before Stonewall,

and Ms. Lahusen photographed protests

during the movement’s earliest days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/
us/kay-tobin-lahusen-gay-rights-activist-and-photographer-dies-at-91.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Kay_Lahusen

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/
us/kay-tobin-lahusen-gay-rights-activist-and-photographer-
dies-at-91.html

Robert Houston    USA    1935-2021

Robert Houston

(...)

documented

the civil rights movement,

poverty and homelessness

in the United States

. Born in East Baltimore in 1935,

he was inspired by his friend

and fellow photographer

Gordon Parks to start work

for the Black Star agency

and then at Life magazine,

for which he notably covered

the Poor People’s Campaign

of 1968.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/06/
robert-houston-witness-to-injustice-and-social-change-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/06/
robert-houston-witness-to-injustice-and-social-change-in-pictures

Grace Robertson    UK    1930-2021

Tea Time, 1952.

A woman, her daughter in her lap,

waits for news of her husband

who has been captured in Korea

Birth pangs to sugar rushes:

Grace Robertson's postwar Britain – in pictures

Grace Robertson, who has died aged 90,

documented everyday life for Picture Post

at a time when photojournalism was dominated by men.

Her pioneering work captured a nation at work,

at play – and in the delivery room

G

Thu 14 Jan 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/14/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-in-pictures

Trailblazing photojournalist,

regularly published in Picture Post,

documented life in postwar Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/13/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-with-a-gentle-eye-dies-at-90

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Grace_Robertson

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/14/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/13/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-with-a-gentle-eye-
dies-at-90  - Guardian picture gallery

Benedict Joseph Fernandez III    USA    1936-2021

Benedict J. Fernandez

captured the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967

before he gave a speech at the United Nations.

Mr. Fernandez was known

in part for his many images of King.

Photograph: Benedict J. Fernandez

Benedict J. Fernandez, Photojournalist and Mentor, Dies at 84

He photographed Martin Luther King Jr.

and produced classic images of the protest movements of the 1960s.

NYT

March 3, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/
arts/benjamin-j-fernandez-dead.html

photojournalist and mentor

He photographed

Martin Luther King Jr.

and produced classic images

of the protest movements of the 1960s.

(...)

professed “photo-anthropologist”

who captured the persona

of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

and the fervor of the King era’s

protest movements

before mentoring a generation

of professional photographers

(...)

Mr. Fernandez became

an award-winning photojournalist

and documentarian

by transforming adversities to his advantage.

Raised in East Harlem,

where he struggled with reading in school

because of undiagnosed dyslexia,

he was not yet a teenager when he received

a simple Brownie camera as a gift

and discovered a new form of expression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/
arts/benjamin-j-fernandez-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/
arts/benjamin-j-fernandez-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/22/
my-best-shot-benedict-j-fernandez-newark-riots-us

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/
no-choice-but-to-protest-and-take-pictures/

Baron Alan Wolman    USA    1937-2020

(Rolling Stone)’s first photographer,

capturing Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin,

the Grateful Dead and many more

in the days before image control.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/
arts/baron-wolman-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/
arts/baron-wolman-dead.html

Chris Killip    Isle of Man / UK    1946-2020

hard-hitting photographer

of Britain's working class

Influential artist,

hailed by Martin Parr as a ‘key player’

in British photography,

captured human dignity

amid industrial decline

in England’s north-east

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/14/
chris-killip-hard-hitting-photographer-of-britains-working-class-dies-aged-74

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/14/
chris-killip-hard-hitting-photographer-of-britains-working-class-
dies-aged-74

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/oct/14/
sprouts-skinheads-sundays-and-supermarkets-chris-killip-
in-pictures - Guardian pîcture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/05/
the-big-picture-chris-killip-the-last-ships-tyne-wallsend

Daniel Budnik    USA    1933-2020

His assignments for leading magazines

took him to pivotal events

of the civil rights era.

He was also known

for his photographs of artists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/
arts/dan-budnik-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/
arts/dan-budnik-dead.html

Matt Herron    USA    1931-2020

John Paul Fusco    USA    1930-2020

‘I was using low-speed colour film,

I was on a moving train

 I was photographing moving subjects,

my shutter speeds were getting lower and lower

and yet there were still endless numbers of mourners

I was trying to photograph.’

Photograph: Paul Fusco

Magnum Photos

Robert F Kennedy's funeral train by Paul Fusco
– in pictures

Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, who has died aged 90,

covered stories ranging from police brutality in New York

to the long-term effects of the Chernobyl disaster

and people living with Aids in California.

In 1968, he photographed the spectators

lined along the route of Robert F Kennedy’s

funeral train from New York to Washington,

capturing the emotion of the nation

and becoming one of the most celebrated

series of photographs of the time

G

Fri 17 Jul 2020    11.29 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jul/17/
robert-f-kennedy-funeral-train-by-paul-fusco-in-pictures

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/
arts/paul-fusco-photographer-dies.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/20/
photographer-paul-fusco-
america-aids-patients-robert-kennedy-funeral-train-magnum-photos

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jul/17/
robert-f-kennedy-funeral-train-by-paul-fusco-in-pictures

Boris Yaro / Boris Anthony Yaroslavski    USA    1938-2020

photographer

for The Los Angeles Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/
business/media/boris-yaro-dead.html

Robert Frank    USA    1924-2019

John Downing    UK    1940-2020

Santu Mofokeng    SA    1956-2020

Bill Ray    USA    1936-2020

Life magazine photographer

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jan/20/
life-magazine-photographer-bill-ray-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jan/20/
life-magazine-photographer-bill-ray-in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Victor Paul Skrebneski    USA    1929-2020

Truman Capote,

photographed as part of the black turtleneck series,

in 1977

Photograph: Victor Skrebneski

Warhol in black, Bowie in the nude:

Victor Skrebneski shoots the stars – in pictures

The American fashion photographer, who died last month aged 90,

was known for his stylised black-and white-portraits of celebrities.

Here are some of his most striking shots

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Wed 13 May 2020    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/13/
warhol-in-black-and-bowie-in-the-nude-portraits-by-victor-skrebneski-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/13/
warhol-in-black-and-bowie-in-the-nude-portraits-by-victor-skrebneski-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Stuart Heydinger    UK    1927-2019

Brilliant news photographer

who worked for the Times

and then became chief photographer

of the Observer

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/03/
stuart-heydinger-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/03/
stuart-heydinger-obituary

Sally Soames    UK    1937-2019

Sally Soames

(...)

was one of a handful of female photographers

who came to prominence

in the heyday of Fleet Street.

She shot only in black and white,

believing that it possessed

“a greater visual impact than colour”,

and preferred working

with natural light.

Like her direct contemporary Don McCullin,

who shared those inclinations,

she got her first assignment at the Observer

and then made her name

at the Sunday Times.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/23/
sally-soames-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/23/
sally-soames-obituary

Jill Freedman    USA    1939-2019

“Gun Play, Street Cops,” 1979

Photograph: Jill Freedman

Jill Freedman, Photographer Who Lingered in the Margins, Dies at 79

She immersed herself

in the rougher precincts of American life for months at a time,

portraying their denizens as noble but not necessarily heroic.

NYT

Oct. 9, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/
arts/jill-freedman-dead.html

adventurous photographer

who immersed herself for months at a time

in the lives of street cops,

firefighters, circus performers and other tribes

she felt were misunderstood

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/
arts/jill-freedman-dead.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/05/
jill-freedman-nypd-in-pictures

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/
arts/jill-freedman-dead.html

John Oliver Shearer    USA    1947-2019

John Shearer

outside the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York,

where he documented a bloody uprising by inmates in 1971.

Photograph: Bill Ray

The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images

John Shearer, Who Photographed Tumultuous 1960s, Dies at 72

Mr. Shearer joined the staff of Look magazine at the age of 20,

becoming one of the few black photographers

at a major national publication.

NYT

June 27, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
arts/john-shearer-dead.html

Mr. Shearer was more than

a photojournalist:

He made animated films,

worked in publishing,

taught at the Columbia

Graduate School of Journalism

and collaborated with his father

on a children’s book series

about a young black detective,

Billy Jo Jive.

It became the basis of an animated feature

for “Sesame Street.”

He also wrote books for young readers,

like “I Wish I Had an Afro” (1970),

about a poor black family

living in the midst of wealth.

But the public knew him

best through his pictures.

A few years after his photo

of the Kennedy funeral appeared,

Mr. Shearer joined the staff of Look.

At 20 he was the magazine’s

second-youngest staff photographer;

the youngest had been

the director Stanley Kubrick,

who was 18 when he was hired

in the mid-1940s.

At the time,

Mr. Shearer was one

of the few black photographers

at a major publication.

His race gave him a different sensibility

in seeing his subjects and, some said,

a greater sense of responsibility

in how he portrayed them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
arts/john-shearer-dead.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
arts/john-shearer-dead.html

Vivian Cherry    USA    1920-2019

David Goldblatt    SA    1930-2018

Arlene Harriet Gottfried    USA    1950-2017

Arlene Gottfried ('s) arresting images

of ordinary people in New York’s

humbler neighborhoods

earned her belated recognition

as one of the finest

street photographers of her generation

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/
arts/design/arlene-gottfried-dead-new-york-city-photographer.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/
arts/design/arlene-gottfried-dead-new-york-city-photographer.html

John Godfrey Morris    USA    1916-2017

John Morris may be an avowed pacifist,

but his career has been largely

defined by war.

He was born during WWl,

was Robert Capa’s photo editor

at Life magazine during WWll

and was the first  to put graphic photos

of the Vietnam War

on the New York Times front page.

He is widely considered

to be one of the most important editors

in the history of photography.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/
as-he-turns-100-john-morris-recalls-a-century-in-photojournalism/

https://www.nytimes.com/video/obituaries/
100000002453870/the-last-word-john-g-morris-obituary.html
- 28 July 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/
business/john-g-morris-renowned-photo-editor-dies-at-100.html

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/
as-he-turns-100-john-morris-recalls-a-century-in-photojournalism/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/apr/17/
photography-henricartierbresson - broken link

David Newell-Smith    UK    1937-2017

Howard Leonid Bingham    USA    1939-2016

Life with the Black Panthers    1968

With their guns, uniforms and talent

for political theatre,

the Black Panthers topped the FBI's list

of 'threats to national security' in the 60s.

In 1968

Howard Bingham spent six months

trailing and photographing them

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2009/oct/25/
black-panthers-howard-l-bingham

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2009/oct/25/
black-panthers-howard-l-bingham

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/25/
black-panthers-photographs-howard-bingham

Hikaru “Carl” Iwasaki    USA    1923-2016

Louis Stettner    USA    1922-2016

Dave Heath    USA    1931-2016

Robert De Witt Fitch    USA    1939-2016

Bob Fitch

photographed prominent black civil rights figures

as the official chronicler

of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Here, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

captured the attention of a young boy

as he spoke before a crowd in Eutaw, Ala.,

in 1966.

Bob Fitch,

via Department of Special Collections,

Stanford University Libraries

Bob Fitch, Photojournalist of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 76

NYT

By SAM ROBERTS    MAY 3, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/
arts/bob-fitch-photojournalist-of-civil-rights-era-dies-at-76.html

self-taught photojournalist

whose images chronicled

America’s deep-seated ambivalence

over civil rights and illustrated

the passion underscoring

other protest movements

since the 1960s

(...)

“Photojournalism seduced me,”

Mr. Fitch wrote on his website.

“It was my way to support

the organizing for social justice

that was transforming history,

our lives and future.”

Mr. Fitch, a preacher’s son

who became

an ordained minister himself,

was transformed

from a Berkeley, Calif., teenager

who rejected religious ritual

into an instrument of social justice

by sundry catalysts:

his family’s fundamental

Christian ethos,

the writing of James Baldwin

and the music of Pete Seeger.

He photographed

the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

and other prominent

black civil rights figures

as the official chronicler

of the organization they founded,

the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference;

Dorothy Day

of the Catholic Workers Movement;

Cesar Chavez

of the United Farm Workers

(his photo was the prototype

for a 2002 postage stamp),

and the Jesuit priests

Daniel and Philip Berrigan

and their followers

who opposed the draft

and the war in Vietnam.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/
arts/bob-fitch-photojournalist-of-civil-rights-era-
dies-at-76.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/
arts/bob-fitch-photojournalist-of-civil-rights-era-
dies-at-76.html

Charles Robert Gatewood    USA    1942-2016

boundary-pushing photographer

who mapped,

provocatively and disturbingly,

the subcultures of strippers,

sex-club devotees, bikers,

body piercers and fetishists

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/
arts/charles-gatewood-photographer-of-extremes-dies-at-73.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/
arts/charles-gatewood-photographer-of-extremes-dies-at-73.html

Robert Adelman    USA    1930-2016

Leo Antony Gleaton    USA    1948-2015

photographer who turned his back

on a career in New York fashion

and embarked on an itinerant artistic quest,

documenting the lives of black cowboys

and creating images of the African diaspora

in Latin America

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/arts/design/
tony-gleaton-67-dies-leaving-legacy-in-pictures-of-africans-in-the-americas.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/08/23/
432629171/tony-gleaton-photographing-the-african-story-across-the-americas

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/
arts/design/tony-gleaton-67-dies-leaving-legacy-
in-pictures-of-africans-in-the-americas.html

Charles Henry Harbutt    USA    1935-2015

Charles Harbutt's photo

"Bride in Church Basement, Granite City, Illinois , 1965.''

Photograph: Charles Harbutt

Charles Harbutt,

Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News,

Dies at 79

By SAM ROBERTS

NYT

JULY 2, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/
arts/charles-harbutt-photojournalist-with-an-eye-for-art-as-well-as-news-dies-at-79.html

photojournalist who infused his work

with evocative imagery

and an art photographer

who transformed conventional scenes

into surreal metaphors

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/
arts/charles-harbutt-photojournalist-with-an-eye-for-art-as-well-as-news-dies-at-79.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/
arts/charles-harbutt-photojournalist-with-an-eye-for-art-
as-well-as-news-dies-at-79.html  

Harold Martin Feinstein    USA    1931-2015

Harold Feinstein ('s)

celebrated series

of black-and-white photographs

of Coney Island in the 1950s

established him as one of the most

accomplished recorders

of the American experience

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/
arts/harold-feinstein-dies-at-84-froze-new-york-moments-in-black-and-white.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/
arts/harold-feinstein-dies-at-84-froze-new-york-moments-in-black-and-white.html

Dan Farrell    USA    1930-2015

photographer

for The Daily News in New York

known for his image

of John F. Kennedy Jr.

saluting his father’s coffin

(...)

In 50 years at the newspaper,

Mr. Farrell photographed

the Beatles’ first American visit,

Bing Crosby on the subway

and President Jimmy Carter

jumping a fence

at La Guardia Airport.

But his most memorable image

was of the president’s son.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/nyregion/
dan-farrell-photographer-who-captured-kennedy-funeral-salute-dies-at-84.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/nyregion/
dan-farrell-photographer-who-captured-kennedy-funeral-salute-dies-at-84.html

Mary Ellen Mark    USA    1940-2015

Ray K. Metzker    USA    1931-2014

the abstract genius

of Ray K Metzker – in pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/03/
abstract-genius-ray-k-metzker-photographs-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

Alfred Wertheimer    Germany, USA    1929-2014

photographer

who for a few fleeting days in 1956

captured strikingly intimate images

of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley

just as he was becoming

a rock ’n’ roll sensation

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/
arts/music/alfred-wertheimer-early-photographer-of-elvis-presley-dies-at-84.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/
arts/music/alfred-wertheimer-early-photographer-of-elvis-presley-dies-at-84.html

Michelangelo Everard du Cille    Jamaica, USA    1956-2014

Lewis Baltz    USA    1945-2014

Shirley Baker    UK    1932-2014

David Reginald Redfern    UK    1936-2014

David Redfern ('s)

photographs of Louis Armstrong,

John Lennon, Frank Sinatra

and others captured a half-century

of popular music and formed

the core of an extensive archive

of musical images

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/
arts/design/david-redfern-british-photographer-of-jazz-and-pop-dies-at-78.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/
arts/design/david-redfern-british-photographer-of-jazz-and-pop-dies-at-78.html

Jane Bown    UK    1925-2014

Lida Moser    USA    1920-2014

Patricia Anne "Tish" Murtha    UK    1956-2013

John Dominis    USA    1921-2013

documentary photographer,

war photographer and photojournalist.

(Dominis) studied cinematography

at the University of Southern California.

In 1943 he enlisted

in the United States Army Air Forces.

After the war, he worked

as a freelance photographer

for several publications,

such as Life magazine.

In 1950 he went to Korea

as a war photographer

in the Korean War.

Later he worke

in Southeast Asia, in America,

Africa and Europe,

including President John F. Kennedy's

1963 West Berlin speech.

Dominis went to six Olympic Games.

One of his best-known pictures

was shot during the 1968 Summer Olympics,

when Dominis pictured

Tommie Smith and John Carlos

during their Black Power salute.

Dominis worked for Life magazine

during the Vietnam War

and later also went to Woodstock.

In the 1970s

he worked for People magazine.

From 1978 to 1982

he was an editor for the Sports Illustrated.

He often pictured stars

like Steve McQueen or Frank Sinatra,

and these photo series were later published

as illustrated books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dominis

Life magazine photographer

who was known for capturing celebrities,

wild animals and presidents

at their unguarded best,

and who was caught off guard himself

while taking his most famous picture

— of two American medal winners

raising black-gloved fists

at the 1968 Olympics —

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/
arts/design/john-dominis-a-star-life-magazine-photographer-dies.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
John_Dominis

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/
arts/design/john-dominis-
a-star-life-magazine-photographer-dies.html

Saul Leiter    USA    1923-2013

 New York at midcentury

was a monochrome town,

or so its best-known

documentarians

would have us believe.

But where eminent photographers

like Weegee, Diane Arbus

and Richard Avedon captured the city

most often in clangorous,

sharp-edged black and white,

Saul Leiter saw it

as a quiet polychrome symphony

— the glow of neon,

the halos of stoplights,

the golden blur of taxis —

a visual music

that few of his contemporaries

seemed inclined to hear.

One of the first professionals

to photograph New York City

regularly in color, Mr. Leiter (...)

was among the foremost

art photographers of his time,

despite the fact that his work

was practically unknown

to the general public.

Of the tens of thousands

of images he shot

— many now esteemed

as among the finest examples

of street photography in the world —

most remain unprinted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/
arts/saul-leiter-photographer-with-a-palette-for-new-york-dies-at-89.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/aug/09/
saul-leiter-photos-paintings-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/03/
saul-leiter-american-photographer-unseen-images

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/aug/15/
saul-leiter-nude-friends-and-lovers-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/
arts/saul-leiter-photographer-with-a-palette-for-new-york-dies-at-89.html

Jack Mitchell    USA    1925-2013

(his) bulging photographic portfolio

of actors, writers, painters,

musicians and especially dancers

describes a pictorial history

of the arts in the late 20th century

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/
arts/jack-mitchell-photographer-of-the-arts-dies-at-88.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/
arts/jack-mitchell-photographer-of-the-arts-dies-at-88.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/11/09/
obituaries/mitchell-obit.html

Deborah Lou Turbeville    USA    1932-2013

Deborah Turbeville

(...)

almost single-handedly

turned fashion photography

from a clean, well-lighted thing

into something dark, brooding

and suffused

with sensual strangeness

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/fashion/deborah-turbeville-fashion-photographer-dies-at-81.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/
fashion/deborah-turbeville-fashion-photographer-dies-at-81.html

Bill Eppridge    Argentina, USA    1938-2013

Guillermo Alfredo Eduardo Eppridge

award-winning photojournalist

who made his most enduring mark

with a historic image

of a mortally wounded

Senator Robert F. Kennedy

lying on the floor

of a Los Angeles hotel

in June 1968

(...)

Mr. Eppridge and his camera

had been eyewitnesses elsewhere.

He photographed

Latin American revolutions,

the Woodstock music festival,

the civil rights movement.

After three civil rights workers

were killed by the Ku Klux Klan

in Mississippi in 1964,

he and a reporter lived with the family

of one of the victims,

James Chaney, for a day or two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/
us/bill-eppridge-who-captured-powerful-60s-images-dies-at-75.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bill_Eppridge

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/
us/bill-eppridge-who-captured-powerful-60s-images-
dies-at-75.html

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/
the-moment-a-photographer-became-a-historian/

Lee Elliot Tanner    USA    1931-2013

jazz photographer

whose evocative and sometimes

ethereal image of Duke Ellington,

Dizzy Gillespie,

Thelonious Monk and others

helped define the genre visually

on scores of album covers

and in magazines,

exhibitions and books

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/arts/music/lee-tanner-jazz-performance-portraitist-is-dead-at-82.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/
arts/music/lee-tanner-jazz-performance-portraitist-is-dead-at-82.html

Lewis Morley    HK, UK, France, Australia    1925-2013

(Lewis Morley) chronicled

changing Britain of the 60s

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/07/lewis-morley-donates-archive-photographs

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/07/
lewis-morley-donates-archive-photographs

Bert Stern    USA    1929-2013

Photographer and film-maker

who took some of the last shots

of Marilyn Monroe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/30/bert-stern

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/30/
bert-stern

Wayne Forest Miller    USA    1918-2013

photographer whose intimate images

from the front lines of war,

the streets of Chicago’s South Side

and his own family life

captured a world in transition

in the middle of the 20th century

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/
arts/design/wayne-miller-photographer-of-war-and-peace-dies-at-94.html

https://vimeo.com/14414088

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/
arts/design/wayne-miller-photographer-of-war-and-peace-dies-at-94.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/25/
arts/design/20130525miller-obit.html

https://pro.magnumphotos.com/
C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_9_VForm&ERID=24KL534NBZ

Ozzie Sweet    USA    1918-2013

 (born Oscar Cowan)

At the end of World War II,

Ozzie Sweet’s picture of a friend

posed as a German soldier surrendering

appeared on the cover of Newsweek

— “the magazine of news significance,”

as it billed itself then.

Not a stratagem

that would pass muster

in contemporary journalism,

but Mr. Sweet, who had apprenticed

to the Mount Rushmore sculptor

Gutzon Borglum, appeared

in a Cecil B. DeMille film

and helped create promotional ads

for the United States Army,

found the art in photography

to be in creating an image,

not capturing one.

He considered himself

not a news photographer

but a photographic illustrator,

and like the work

of the painter Norman Rockwell,

whom he claimed as an influence,

his signature images

from the 1940s through the 1950s

and into the 1960s,

many in the fierce hues

of increasingly popular color film

that emulated

the emergent Technicolor

palate of American movies,

helped define

— visually, anyway —

an era.

Mr. Sweet (...) took photographs

that appeared on an estimated

1,800 magazine covers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/
sports/ozzie-sweet-who-helped-define-new-era-of-photography-dies-at-94.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/
sports/ozzie-sweet-who-helped-define-new-era-of-photography-dies-at-94.html

David Farrell    UK    1919-2013

David Farrell (...)

was known primarily

for his photographic portraits

of the most prominent

artists, actors, authors

and, particularly,

musicians of his time.

These ranged from classical performers

such as Yehudi Menuhin,

Ravi Shankar and Jacqueline du Pré

to Louis Armstrong, the Beatles

and the Rolling Stones.

He would take his portable darkroom

with him to filming locations,

where he photographed

Albert Finney, Julie Christie,

Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson,

among others.

His main body of work

dates from the mid-1950s to the 1980s,

by which time he was working

primarily in cinema,

but he continued with his photography

well into the digital age.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/11/david-farrell

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/01/
david-farrell-photography-stars-rolling-stones-judi-dench-osborne-samuel

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/11/
david-farrell

Balthazar Kora    Hungary, USA    1926-2013

one of the leading

architectural photographers

in the period after World War II

when Modernist design

remade the American landscape

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/
arts/design/balthazar-korab-architectural-photographer-dies-at-86.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/
arts/design/balthazar-korab-architectural-photographer-dies-at-86.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/01/25/
arts/artsspecial/20130125KORAB_OBIT.html

Martin Jenkinson    UK    ?-2012

C&A department store viewed from the Hole in the Road,

Sheffield, February 1990

From picket lines to Palestine:

Who We Are: by Martin Jenkinson - in pictures

His famous protest images put his work

on front pages throughout the 80s,

but every photograph of Martin Jenkinson’s

was a glimpse of our shared humanity

and an insight into the communities

he lived and worked in

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Tue 27 Nov 2018    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/nov/27/
who-we-are-by-martin-jenkinson--in-pictures

(...)

former steelworker

whose love of photography

combined with his politics

and his belief in social justice,

fairness and equality.

He was responsible

for some of the most striking images

to have emerged from political

and industrial struggle in Britain

over the last 30 years.

Martin captured steelworkers

as they fought for survival,

and was the official photographer

on the People's March for Jobs,

in 1981.

He was commissioned

by the National Union of Mineworkers'

newspapers the Miner

and the Yorkshire Miner,

and was at the heart

of the epic strike against

pit closures of 1984-85.

His enduring images include

the arrest of Arthur Scargill;

the launch of the Women

Against Pit Closures movement;

and a smiling pit striker

named Geordie Brealey

wearing a toy policeman's helmet

as he "inspects"

battalions of police officers

lined up against pickets

at Orgreave cokeworks.

He was also commissioned

by many other unions, notably

the National Union of Teachers,

to cover their conferences,

galas and other events.

An active member

of the National Union of Journalists,

he served

on its national executive committee.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/01/
martin-jenkinson-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/06/
photographers-scrum-winning-image-picture#img-1

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/nov/27/
who-we-are-by-martin-jenkinson--in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/01/
martin-jenkinson-obituary

Roger Prigent     1923-2012

(born in Hanoi, Vietnam)

Roger Prigent

(...)

gave up a promising career

in fashion photography

when his eyesight began

to fail three decades ago

and (...) became a prominent

Manhattan antiques dealer,

leading a popular new wave

in French Empire furnishings

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/nyregion/
roger-prigent-photographer-turned-antiques-dealer-dies-at-89.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/
nyregion/roger-prigent-photographer-turned-antiques-dealer-dies-at-89.html

Cornel Lucas    UK    1920-2012

British portrait photographer

who created defining images

of Brigitte Bardot, Katharine Hepburn,

Gregory Peck and a host

of other celebrities

during the 1950s and ’60s,

when publicity photos

were the lifeblood

of the star-making process

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/
arts/cornel-lucas-photographer-whose-portraits-defined-film-stars-dies-at-92.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/19/
cornel-lucas 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/
arts/cornel-lucas-photographer-whose-portraits-defined-film-stars-dies-at-92.html

Bettye Lane    USA    1930-2012

 (born Elizabeth Foti)

photojournalist

who gained wide recognition

for her rich trove of pictures

documenting the feminist movement

in the 1970s and ’80s

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/
arts/bettye-lane-photographer-of-protest-dies-at-82.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/
arts/bettye-lane-photographer-of-protest-dies-at-82.html

Pedro Eduardo Guerrero    USA    1917-2012

former art school dropout

who showed up

in the dusty Arizona driveway

of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939,

boldly declared himself a photographer

and then spent the next half-century

working closely with him,

capturing his modernist architecture

on film

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/
arts/design/pedro-guerrero-95-dies-captured-another-dimension-of-art.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/
arts/design/pedro-guerrero-95-dies-
captured-another-dimension-of-art.html

Cris Alexander    USA    1920-2012

 (born Allen Smith)

Mr. Alexander made it in New York

as a photographer,

taking portraits of the likes

of Martha Graham and Vivien Leigh;

having gallery shows;

working for Andy Warhol’s

Interview magazine

and the New York City Ballet;

and providing droll pictures

for the best-selling 1961 satire

of a movie star’s memoir,

“Little Me,”

written by Patrick Dennis

and later adapted for the Broadway stage

by Neil Simon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/
arts/cris-alexander-actor-and-photographer-dies-at-92.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/
arts/cris-alexander-actor-and-photographer-dies-at-92.html

Stanley Frank Stearns    USA    1935-2012

His iconic photograph

of John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father’s casket

on Nov. 25, 1963,

helped encapsulate a nation’s grief

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/us/
stan-stearns-who-caught-jfk-jrs-salute-on-film-dies-at-76.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/us/
stan-stearns-who-caught-jfk-jrs-salute-on-film-dies-at-76.html

Lillian Violet Bassman    USA    1917-2012

magazine art director

and fashion photographer

who achieved renown

in the 1940s and ’50s

with high-contrast,

dreamy portraits of sylphlike models,

then re-emerged in the ’90s

as a fine-art photographer

after a cache of lost negatives resurfaced

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/
arts/design/lillian-bassman-fashion-and-fine-art-photographer-dies-at-94.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/
arts/design/lillian-bassman-fashion-and-fine-art-photographer-dies-at-94.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/02/14/
arts/design/20120214bassmanSS.html

Eve Arnold    USA    1912-2012

Divorce, Moscow, USSR, 1966

Arnold’s first major solo show exhibition

was held at Brooklyn Museum in 1980.

In the same year,

she received a lifetime achievement award

from the American Society of Magazine Photographers

Brothels, bartenders and film stars:

Eve Arnold’s women – in pictures

The pioneering photojournalist was headhunted by Magnum

and became a personal favourite of Marilyn Monroe.

A new retrospective tells her story

The pioneering photojournalist was headhunted by Magnum

and became a personal favourite of Marilyn Monroe.

A new retrospective tells her story

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Mon 10 Jul 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/10/
brothels-bartenders-and-film-stars-eve-arnolds-women-in-pictures

The longevity of Eve Arnold's career

as a photographer matched

the heterogeneity of her work.

Despite the success of her portraits

of the rich and famous,

Arnold (...) was equally well known

for photographing

"the poor, the old and the underdog".

She said:

"It's the hardest thing in the world

to take the mundane and try to show

how special it is."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
eve-arnold

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/10/
brothels-bartenders-and-film-stars-eve-arnolds-women-
in-pictures - Guardian picture gallery

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/11/
the-big-picture-marilyn-monroe-unravels-in-the-desert

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/11/
eve-arnold-images-released-as-posters-in-pictures

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/13/
eve-arnold-photojournalist-interview-1971

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/04/all-about-eve-arnold-review

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/08/big-picture-eve-arnold

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold-memorable-photographs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/photographer-eve-arnold-dies

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/jul/07/
film 

Martine Franck    Belgium    1938-2012

A highly versatile artist,

Franck mixed shots of celebrities

with work in the great

humanitarian tradition

of the Magnum agency.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/aug/20/
martine-franck-magnum-photography-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/aug/19/
martine-franck

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/aug/20/
martine-franck-magnum-photography-pictures

Malcolm Wilde Browne    USA    1931-2012

Korean war / Vietnam war

photographer

Mr. Browne’s

graphic 1963 photographic series

of the fiery suicide of the monk,

Thich Quang Duc,

exposed the deep hostility

to the Saigon regime

months before the ineffectual

South Vietnamese President

Ngo Dinh Diem was shot,

three weeks before Kennedy’s

assassination.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
arts/design/images-of-the-vietnam-war-that-defined-an-era.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
arts/design/images-of-the-vietnam-war-that-defined-an-era.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/
world/asia/malcolm-w-browne-pulitzer-winner-dies-at-81.html

Horst Faas    Germany    1933-2012

Women and children crouched in a muddy canal,

taking cover from intense Vietcong fire. 1966.

Photograph: Horst Faas

Associated Press

Parting Glance: Horst Faas

By The Associated Press

May. 10, 2012        NYT        May. 10, 2012

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/
a-parting-glance-horst-faas/ 

Photojournalist's work

in uncovering the horrors of Vietnam war

helped turn mainstream opinion

against US offensive

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/11/vietnam-war-photographer-horst-faas

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/21/
40-years-on-from-fall-of-saigon-witnessing-end-of-vietnam-war#img-4

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/11/
vietnam-war-photographer-horst-faas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/may/11/
photographer-horst-faas-in-pictures

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2012/05/
legendary-photojournalist-hors.html

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/
a-parting-glance-horst-faas/

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/
world/asia/horst-faas-vietnam-war-photographer-dies-at-79.html

Horst Faas > war photography

Leo Friedman    USA    1919-2011

his photograph

of an ebullient Carol Lawrence

and Larry Kert as lovebirds

chasing down a Manhattan street

became the enduring emblem

of the musical “West Side Story”

and the signature image

of a career spent taking pictures

of actors in action

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/
theater/leo-friedman-photographer-of-broadway-dies-at-92.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/
theater/leo-friedman-photographer-of-broadway-
dies-at-92.html

Barry Feinstein    USA    1931-2011

photographer who chronicled

the lives of seminal rock ’n’ roll

stars of the 1960s,

and who was perhaps best known

for the stark portrait of Bob Dylan

on the cover of the 1964 album

“The Times They Are A-Changin’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/
arts/music/barry-feinstein-photographer-of-defining-rock-portraits-dies-at-80.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/
arts/music/barry-feinstein-photographer-of-defining-rock-portraits-dies-at-80.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/
24/barry-feinstein

Theodore Lux Feininger    Germany, USA    1910-2011

painter and photographer

who, as a young student at the Bauhaus,

used his camera to compile

an invaluable and visually

distinctive record of the artistic avant-garde

in Germany between the wars

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/
arts/t-lux-feininger-photographer-and-painter-dies-at-101.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/
arts/t-lux-feininger-photographer-and-painter-dies-at-101.html

Albert Edward West    1933-2011

Photographer

with the Guardian for 26 years,

whose career spanned

glass plate and digital

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jun/01/
e-hamilton-west-obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jun/01/
e-hamilton-west-obituary

Brian Lanker    USA    1947-2011

photojournalist who showed

that small-city newspapers

could have large-scale impact

through the empathetic

and intimate visual portrayal

of American lives

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/
arts/design/brian-lanker-pulitzer-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-63.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/
arts/design/brian-lanker-pulitzer-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-63.html

Jerome Liebling    USA    1924-2011

(his) subtly powerful pictures

and the lessons he drew from them

influenced a generation

of socially minded photographers

and documentary filmmakers

(...)

Mr. Liebling was among a wave

of pioneering photographers

— including Walker Evans,

Berenice Abbott, Helen Levitt

and Gordon Parks — who took

to the streets of New York

in the 1930s and ’40s

to make art by turning their cameras

onto corners of urban life

that had mostly been ignored

by the photographers before them.

His experience as a child of the Depression

growing up in Brooklyn,

Mr. Liebling said,

formed an impulse throughout his career

to “figure out where the pain was,

to show things that people wouldn’t see

unless I was showing them.”

Over a half-century

much of his work

depicted painful subjects

far too directly for magazines

or newspapers to show them:

mental patients in state hospitals,

cadavers used

by New York medical students,

blood-drenched workers

at a Minnesota slaughterhouse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/
arts/design/jerome-liebling-photographer-and-mentor-is-dead-at-87.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/07/
jerome-liebling-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/sep/07/
jerome-liebling-photography

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/
arts/design/jerome-liebling-photographer-and-mentor-is-dead-at-87.html

Corinne Day    UK    1962-2010

Photographer

whose unadorned, plaintive images

exposed a darker side of fashion

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/world/europe/02day.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/31/corinne-day-obituary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/31/corinne-day-kate-moss

Lee Jonathan Lockwood    USA    1932-2010

American photojournalist

who had rare opportunities

to capture political, military

and civilian life in Communist countries,

documenting the treatment

of an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam

and persuading Fidel Castro

to sit for a long, discursive,

smoke-filled and highly personal interview

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08lockwood.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/
08lockwood.html

Brian Duffy    UK    1933-2010

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/05/
photographer-brian-duffy-dies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/12/
brian-duffy

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/sep/28/
brian-duffy-photography-exhibition

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/27/
sixties-photographer-brian-duffy-show

Peter Andrew Gibson Gowland    USA    1916-2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/
arts/design/05gowland.html

Jim Marshall    USA    1936-2010

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

at Sunset Sound doing post-production

work on Exile on Main Street,

spring 1972, Los Angeles, California.

‘Wonderful work, and a great guy.

He had a way with the shutter

and an amazing way with the eye!’ – Richards

hotograph: Jim Marshall

Photography LLC

‘He caught us with our trousers down’:

Jim Marshall’s Rolling Stones photographs

At a new exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles,

photographer Jim Marshall’s intimate

and revealing pictures of the Rolling Stones in 1972

show them letting off steam backstage

and performing with dynamism onstage.

The Rolling Stones 1972:

Photographs by Jim Marshall will be on show until June 2023

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