Category: Obituaries
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National Geographic Freelance Photographer Wes Skiles Dies – NatGeo News Watch
Link: “National Geographic has learned of the tragic death of Wes Skiles, the accomplished underwater photographer, cinematographer and explorer with whom we’ve worked frequently,” the National Geographic Society said in a statement today. “The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the incident, which occurred following the conclusion of a scientific research expedition related to…
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The Online Photographer: Milton Rogovin 1909-2011
Link: Originally an optometrist, Milton was persecuted during the un-American McCarthyite inquisitions of the 1950s. With his practice in rapid decline as a consequence, he turned to photography to express his values, and for sixty years photographed the poor and the working class with a clear eye
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Brian Lanker, 64, Loses Brief Battle With Cancer
Link: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and filmmaker Brian Lanker, a newspaper and Life magazine, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated photographer whose book “I Dream A World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America” was one of the most successful photography books ever, has died at his home in Eugene after battling pancreatic cancer for less than…
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Tim Hetherington
Two years ago I was working as a Sundance producer for Park City’s KPCW radio station. One of my pri
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Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya | VF Daily | Vanity Fair
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya Photograph by Matt Stuart.Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer, was killed today while covering the conflict in Misrata, Libya. “Tim died about two hours ago,” said Peter N. Bouckaert, of Human Rights Wat via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2011/04/tim-hetherington-41-killed-in-libya.html As recently as yesterday, Hetherington tweeted about “indiscriminate shelling”…
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Chris Hondros, at Work in Libya
Chris Hondros of Getty Images was taking his customarily intimate, insightful photographs before bei
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The Chris Hondros photograph that changed me
Link: I remember my mother pulling a picture out of our local Seattle Times newspaper for me, running large on the third page. A news picture tucked inside the paper, sitting on its own, was odd to see. It was as if the editors thought they had to get a great picture published even if…
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For What It's Worth
Link: Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed yesterday in Misrata, Libya. I didn’t know Tim. I respected his work and how he went about creating it. I did know Chris. He was a friend and a man I deeply admired.
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Anton Hammerl in Memoriam
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ GlobalPost’s James Foley, one of the reporters in the incident, said he called out amid the barrages asking if Hammerl was ok. The answer was “No” and then there was silence.
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Mike Russell, advertising and street photographer and digital pioneer [2]
Link: The advertising and street photographer Mike Russell has died from cancer. He was an early practitioner of digital technology and a passionate environmentalist.
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Eve Arnold obituary
Eve Arnold obituary Celebrated Magnum photographer who documented ‘the poor, the old and the underdog’, as well as the stars via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold Celebrated Magnum photographer who documented ‘the poor, the old and the underdog’, as well as the stars
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Photographer Andrew MacNaughtan Dies, Age 47
Link: MacNaughtan was best known for photographing Canadian celebrities and musicians
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Friends, colleagues remember Rémi Ochlik
Link: Rémi Ochlik was killed in Homs, Syria on 22 February. Friends and colleagues tell BJP what made the young photographer one of a kind – “a man who knew better than take unnecessary risks.”
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Music Photographer Jim McCrary Dies at 72
Link: Jim McCrary, the former A&M Records staff photographer who shot the cover of Carole King’s Tapestry and other rock-and-roll albums, died on April 29, 2012, “of complications from a chronic nervous system disorder,” the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 72 years old.
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Horst Faas, War Photographer, Is Dead at 79
Parting Glance: Horst Faas Horst Faas, a prizewinning combat photographer with The Associated Press for nearly a half-century, died on Thursday. He was 79. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/a-parting-glance-horst-faas/?pagewanted=all Mr. Faas was a brilliant planner, able to score journalistic scoops by anticipating “not just what happens next, but what happens after that,” as one colleague put…
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Horst Faas by Richard Pyle
Link: As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn’t just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers.
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Death of Horacio Coppola
Link: Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola, of the 20th century Bauhaus movement, died Monday in his home town of Buenos Aires. He was 105.
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In Memoriam: Photographers Who Died in 2012
LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: https://time.com/section/lightbox/ In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom through the exploits of his six children.