Category: Obituaries
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How Santu Mofokeng Shaped South African Photography | The New Yorker
How Santu Mofokeng Shaped South African Photography Mofokeng, who died in January, made work that waded through themes of history and land, and helped shape the course of South African photography. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/how-santu-mofokeng-shaped-south-african-photography These images, by the South African photographer Santu Mofokeng, ostensibly depict scenes of segregated transport during apartheid. Yet in…
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Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 – The New York Times
Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 His sublime black-and-white images of everyday life in South Africa both during and after white rule capture hope and unfulfilled expectations. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/arts/santu-mofokeng-dead.html?fbclid=IwAR0P679Kku9YxtX7BlxB8tHOPKJq2RmEhxf-6clKWaE1zzq3Zpv35NYS2-0 Santu Mofokeng, a photographer whose searing images of everyday life in South Africa’s black townships documented the prospects of freedom from apartheid and…
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Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020)
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/modena-international-photography-prize-santu-mofokeng-una-solitudine-silenziosa-fotografie-1982-2011-2/ The South African photographer died at 63. Here is the feature we dedicated to him when he received the International Photography Award in Modena in 2016.
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Santu Mofokeng, the photojournalist who made ordinary things extraordinary | The Star
Santu Mofokeng, the photojournalist who made ordinary things extraordinary | The Star Condolences continue to pour in for legendary photographer who died at the weekend surrounded by his family in Soweto. Link: https://www.iol.co.za/the-star/news/santu-mofokeng-the-photojournalist-who-made-ordinary-things-extraordinary-41638655 Art critic Sandile Ngidi tweeted: “South African documentary photography has lost one of its brightest stars. Santu Mofokeng belonged to a committed…
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The End of an Era: Photo District News (PDN) is Shutting Down
The End of an Era: Photo District News (PDN) is Shutting Down Photo District News (PDN), a 40-year-old photo publication and staple of the industry, is shutting down. The magazine’s owner Emerald Expositions has via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/01/28/the-end-of-an-era-photo-district-news-pdn-is-shutting-down/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Photo District News (PDN), a 40-year-old photo publication and staple of the industry, is shutting down. The magazine’s…
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Bill Ray, Photographer of Indelible Moments, Dies at 83 – The New York Times
Bill Ray, Photographer of Indelible Moments, Dies at 83 He captured Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy birthday, Mr. President,” Elvis Presley as an Army private, scenes of war and urban unrest, and much more. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/arts/bill-ray-dead.html He captured Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy birthday, Mr. President,” Elvis Presley as an Army private, scenes of war and urban…
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Last Despatches
Last Despatches | Documenting Journalists Killed in the Balkans Around 140 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Balkans during and after the 1990s conflicts. We are documenting their lives and the pursuit of justice for their deaths. Link: http://last-despatches.balkaninsight.com/ journalists and media workers were killed during and after the violent breakup of…
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Celebrity Photographer Dies At Lady Gaga Event
Link: Celebrity shooter A.J. Sokalner, admired by his colleagues for his quiet, passionate commitment to photography, collapsed Monday night
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Photographer and Filmmaker Tom Hollyman Dies at 89
Link: Trained as a photojournalist, Hollyman specialized in travel photography for many years, shooting for Holiday and Town and Country magazines. He also served as the director of photography for the 1963 movie version of Lord of the Flies.
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Award-Winning Television Photojournalist Bob Brandon Dies In New York
Link: “The word legend is sometimes overused, but in Bob’s case it was the real thing.”
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Magnum's Dennis Stock, 81
Link: “I’ve never taken an assignment,” Stock said when he addressed a gathering of photojournalism students at the University of Texas in Austin’s School of Journalism in 2009. “I’ve always photographed what I wanted to be photographing, and then worried about selling the pictures or doing something with them afterwards. I’ve always shot for myself,…
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Bob Willoughby obituary | The Guardian
Bob Willoughby obituary American photographer whose informal shots defined the youthful glamour of the 1950s and 1960s via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/18/bob-willoughby-obituary American photographer whose informal shots defined the youthful glamour of the 1950s and 1960s
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Fearless to the end: Remembering Margaret Moth
Link: she was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.
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Life magazine's Charles Moore, 79
Link: Moore’s photograph of King’s arrest moved on the Associated Press wire and was picked up by Life magazine, transforming what had been a regional story into a national debate.
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Weyman D. Swagger, Baltimore Sun photographer, editor – baltimoresun.com
Link: Weyman D. Swagger, a Baltimore Sun news photographer who became the paper’s first photo editor, died of cancer Wednesday at his Halethorpe home. He was 66.
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Clint Grant, longtime Dallas Morning News photographer, dies at 93
Link: Donald C. “Clint” Grant developed a national reputation for the humorous feature photos he took of animals during his long career with The Dallas Morning News.
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Arizona Photojournalist Randy Reid, 49
Link: Photojournalist Randy Reid, who was a staff photographer for more than two decades at the Arizona Republic and the Phoenix Gazette, died May 19 after a long battle with cancer. He was 49.
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LIFE Photographer Myron Davis, 1919-2010
Link: Davis’s archive contains thousands of subjects, including a photo essay on an Iowa farm boy and his dog, the last photos of film comedienne Carole Lombard at an Indiana war bond rally (her plane crashed on the way back to California), as well as portraits of General Dwight Eisenhower, President Franklin Roosevelt, and famed…