Category Archives: Obituaries

Juxtapoz Magazine – Cheryl Dunn Remembers Photographer Jill Freedman, Who Died this Week at the Age of 79 Jill Freedman was in a league of her own. Some people knew her work but many more should have. She was elusive and forthright and not beholden to anyone. She didn’t really pursue commercial jobs to float […]

Charlie Cole, Photojournalist Behind Iconic Tank Man Photo, Dies at 64 now Charlie Cole, the American photojournalist behind one of the four iconic Tank Man photos taken during the infamous 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, has also passed away. Cole was 64 years old

Remembering Robert Frank, 1924-2019 – British Journal of Photography Robert Frank’s The Americans greatly influenced the course of 20th and 21st-century photography. His contemporaries, and those who followed, reflect on the enduring significance of his work

Juxtapoz Magazine – Fred Herzog, a Pioneer of Color Photography, Dies at 88 The world has lost another photography great this week. Fred Herzog, an early pioneer of color and street photography, died in Vancouver on Monday at age 88. Herzog started photographing in and around Vancouver in 1953, making images awash with vibrant color […]

How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America | The New Yorker nation that is premised on an idea—not on an alleged shared bloodline or eons of history on common acreage—is prone to periodically question exactly who and what it is. The matter that binds Americans, as much as any doctrine or document, is the pursuit […]

The America of Robert Frank Danziger Gallery presents an exhibition devoted to Robert Frank  American photographs, his best known and arguably most important work. The exhibition will be comprised of 40 photographs – 15 from Frank’s seminal book “The Americans” (now celebrating the 60th anniversary of its American publication) and 25 unpublished works from Frank’s travels […]

Juxtapoz Magazine – Robert Frank, One of the Most Influential Figures in the History of Photography, Dies at 94 Photographer Robert Frank, one of the most pivotal figures in history, has passed away at the age of 94. Frank’s 1958 book The Americans redefined what a photograph could mean and is arguably the most influential […]

Robert Frank 1924-2019 – The Photo Society Robert Frank died today. As Sean O’Hagan wrote for The Guardian “it is impossible to imagine photography’s recent past and overwhelmingly confusing present without (Robert Frank’s) lingeringly pervasive presence. Frank was 31 in 1955 when he secured the Guggenheim Grant… He shot around 28,000 pictures. When Les Americains […]

The Shock of Robert Frank’s “The Americans” | The New Yorker It may be impossible to convey to people who weren’t percipient in the early nineteen-sixties the profound, exulting shock that Robert Frank’s “The Americans” delivered to me, among many others, at the time of its release. The book, which was published in the United […]

Wanting to See Like Robert Frank | The New Yorker The photographer Robert Frank died on Monday, on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia. He was ninety-four. Frank’s pictures were spontaneous and imperfect—usually grainy and overexposed, often crooked—yet consistently devastating to behold. I bought his best-known book, “The Americans,” when I was sixteen, in part […]

Noted Vancouver photographer Fred Herzog dies at age 88 | Vancouver Sun Legendary Vancouver photographer Fred Herzog has died. He was 88.

Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 – The New York Times Mr. Frank’s visually raw and personally expressive style made him one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century.

Peter Lindbergh, Fashion Photography Icon, Has Died at Age 74 Peter Lindbergh, the German fashion photography icon who is was credited with ushering in “the rise of the supermodel,” passed away yesterday at the age of 74. The announcement was made earlier today through Lindbergh’s official Instagram account.

In Memoriam : Jean Marquis It was nice this Monday at Rambouillet. Jean Marquis, 93 years old, also left surrounded by all his family. He leaves us a magnificent body of work.

In Memoriam : Jean Marquis It was nice this Monday at Rambouillet. Jean Marquis, 93 years old, also left surrounded by all his family. He leaves us a magnificent body of work.

Ida Wyman, Whose Camera Captured Ordinary People, Dies at 93 – The New York Times Ms. Wyman photographed for Life, Business Week and her own enjoyment, satisfying “an immense curiosity to learn and understand the lives of others.”

News photo editor Guy Reynolds battled cancer, depression but never lost ‘the eye of an artist’ | Obituaries | Dallas News When Guy Reynolds was at his best, he was a creative force — a gifted photographer with a quirky eye.

Michael Wolf, Photographer of Mega-Cities, Dies in Hong Kong – The New York Times