Category: Obituaries

  • Fabio Polenghi Photographer Shot, Killed in Thailand | Newsolio

    48-year-old Fabio Polenghi was shot as Thai military forces stormed a “Red Shirt” protest camp in an attempt to end a weeks long stand-off involving anti-government protesters and government forces. Link: Fabio Polenghi Photographer Shot, Killed in Thailand | Newsolio

  • NorthJersey.com: Al Paglione, self-taught, award-winning Record photographer, dies

    Al Paglione, a longshoreman-turned-photojournalist who chronicled 35 years in the life of North Jersey, died Wednesday night at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. He was 80 and lived in Ridgefield Park. Link: NorthJersey.com: Al Paglione, self-taught, award-winning Record photographer, dies

  • PDNPulse: LIFE Photographer Myron Davis, 1919-2010

    Former LIFE photographer Myron Davis, whose iconic images included the “From Here to Eternity” photo of actors Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing on a beach, died on April 17 from injuries suffered in a fire that broke out in his apartment in Hyde Park, Chicago. Davis was 90 years old. Link: PDNPulse: LIFE Photographer…

  • Life Magazine Photographer Myron H. Davis, 90

    The photographer dropped out of his senior year at the University of Chicago in 1940 to work for the fledgling Life magazine as a freelance photographer, first through the Chicago bureau. When Davis was hired in 1941 he was the youngest photographer on the Life staff. Link: Life Magazine Photographer Myron H. Davis, 90

  • dispatches / In memory of A.K. Kimoto

    A.K. Kimoto, a Japanese photographer born in the U.S. in 1977, passed away unexpectedly in the last week in March while preparing to visit FotoFreo Photo Festival in Australia. The following are eulogies by his closest friends celebrating his life and work, published alongside his images of opium addiction in Badakshan, Afghanistan. Link: dispatches /…

  • Remembering Namir Noor-Eldeen – Lens

    Namir Noor-Eldeen stood out among a gifted group of young Iraqi photojournalists who emerged from the war. His well-composed photographs showed his natural sense of color, and his gift for capturing the dramatic moment. Link: Remembering Namir Noor-Eldeen – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com

  • The Online Photographer: Namir Noor-Eldeen, 1984-2007

    Namir Noor-Eldeen, 1984-2007 Namir Noor-Eldeen (Reuters file photo) War encourages casual murder and probably always has, but the most egregious examples are still dismaying. Thanks to whistle-blowers inside the American military and the under-funded wiki site Wikileaks, which anonym via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/04/namir-nooreldeen-19842007.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 By all accounts cheerful, helpful and energetic, the then-22-year-old Namir Noor-Eldeen…

  • Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93 – NYTimes.com

    Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93 – NYTimes.com

    Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93 Mr. Gowland used a camera, sunshine and imagination to portray ravishing women at a time when the pinup girl was a nearly ubiquitous fixture of American life. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/arts/design/01gowland.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Peter Gowland, who used camera, sunshine and imagination to portray ravishing women at a time when the…

  • The Online Photographer: Memories of Marshall

    Memories of Marshall Tom Zimberoff and Jim Marshall By Tom Zimberoff I had to buy onions today. I just couldn’t bring myself to write about Jim Marshall, I suppose, until something that ordinary and evocative opened a sluice of memories and tears. Some… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/03/memories-of-marshall.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 When I stopped shooting years ago, I…

  • Remains found in Cambodia thought to be of Errol Flynn's son – guardian.co.uk

    Remains found in Cambodia thought to be of Errol Flynn’s son Photographer Sean Flynn, who went went missing in 1970, believed to have been captured and killed in Cambodian war via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/29/cambodia-remains-errol-flynn-son Photographer Sean Flynn, who went went missing in 1970, believed to have been captured and killed in Cambodian war

  • Marshall took iconic photos of musicians; From Johnny Cash to Janis Joplin, he captured many greats

    During this period he got his famous photo of Joplin backstage, slouched on a couch with a bottle of Southern Comfort cradled in her hands. “Some people said I shouldn’t have published that picture of her lying back, with the bottle in her hand, but I’ll defend it to the death,” he once said. “People…

  • Marty Lederhandler Dies; At D-Day and 9/11 – Lens

    Marty Lederhandler of The Associated Press — “I never want to stop saying that,” he declared on his retirement — was there on June 6, 1944, and on Sept. 11, 2001, and on a remarkable number of occasions in between. (Including Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s honeymoon flight to Venezuela.) Link: Marty Lederhandler Dies; At D-Day…

  • Marty Lederhandler, AP lensman for 66 years, dies – The Olympian

    Marty Lederhandler, an Associated Press photographer who captured on film every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, covered the D-Day landing in 1944 and climaxed a 66-year career with an iconic shot of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, has died. He was 92. Link: Marty Lederhandler, AP lensman for 66 years, dies…

  • Jim Marshall was a bad ass – Mangin Photography Archive

    I have fought hard to own all or most of my images that I have produced over the past 20 plus years. The older I get the more and more I grow to appreciate Marshall and what he stood for. This man fought hard for everything he had, and no way in Hell was he…

  • Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74 – NYTimes.com

    Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74 – NYTimes.com

    Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74 Mr. Marshall was a photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and others in the 1960s and ’70s helped define their subjects as well as rock ’n’ roll photography itself. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25marshall.html?partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099 Annie Leibovitz once called him “the rock ’n’ roll photographer.” With an…

  • The Online Photographer: Artists Ain't Saints: Jim Marshall, 1936-2010

    Artists Ain’t Saints: Jim Marshall, 1936-2010 By Ctein I’m feeling mildly discombobulated. I just found out an hour ago that Jim Marshall died in his sleep last night (Tuesday night) in his hotel room in New York City; he was there for another show opening and… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/03/artists-aint-saints-jim-marshall-19362010.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 Practically the first thing…

  • Jim Marshall RIP – wtj

    Jackanory Films presents a Jim Marshall show and tell from andrew hetherington on Vimeo. I recorded his show and tell on my point and shoot and have reposted the video in its entirety below. If you havent seen it or heard Jim speak before its well worth a look see. The stories and indeed his…

  • Jim Marshall, Legendary Rock Photographer, Passes Away at 74

    Marshall summed up his rapport with rock stars best when talking about Joplin: “You could just call her at home and be like, ‘We have to take some pictures,’ and she’d say, ‘OK! Come over!’ She trusted me and knew I had her best interests at heart. I only wanted to make her look good.”…

  • Jim’s Gone…. | Joe McNally's Blog

    Jim’s Gone…. Jim Marshall died today. That name might not mean much to lots of folks, even photographic folks, but we are all the poorer for his passing. He was an iconic shooter of the rock and via Joe McNally’s Blog: http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2010/03/24/jims-gone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+joemcnally+%28Joe+McNally%27s+Blog%29 Has anyone ever shot a memorable picture of, for instance, Coldplay? From what…

  • Rock and Roll Photographer Jim Marshall Has Died, Age 74

    Gallery owner David Fahey, who co-authored Not Fade Away with Marshall, says, “Jim had an intuitive way of getting to the heart and soul of his subjects. He was there at a special time for our generation. He recorded the best people and took the best pictures of them.” Link: Rock and Roll Photographer Jim…