Obituaries – The Click

Santu Mofokeng, Photographer of Apartheid Life, Dies at 63 – The New York Times

His sublime black-and-white images of everyday life in South Africa both during and after white rule capture hope and unfulfilled expectations.

Santu Mofokeng (1956-2020)

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.

Link:
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/modena-international-photography-prize-santu-mofokeng-una-solitudine-silenziosa-fotografie-1982-2011-2/

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.

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

Post date January 29, 2020
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Bill Ray, Photographer of Indelible Moments, Dies at 83 – The New York Times

He captured Marilyn Monroe singing “Happy birthday, Mr. President,” Elvis Presley as an Army private, scenes of war and urban unrest, and much more.

Last Despatches

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.

Post date January 25, 2020
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Humanist photographer Jean-Louis Swiners has died

Collaborator of Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, reporter for Réalités magazine, Niepce 1962 award, distributed by the Dalmas photo agency then Rapho and today by Gamma-Rapho agency, Jean-Louis Swiners left us between two parties scoffing at life he loved so much.

Link:
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/humanist-photographer-jean-louis-swiners-has-died/

Post date January 7, 2020
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L.A. Times photo editor Alan Hagman dies at 55; ‘always the nicest person in the room’ – Los Angeles Times

As a photographer he shot defining images of Southern California; as an editor he looked for images that told stories about the world.

Sally Soames, Fearless Photographer With Personal Touch, Dies at 82 – The New York Times

In taking portraits of the famous — Margaret Thatcher, Sean Connery and Rudolf Nureyev among them — she made them relax. In war zones she was unflinching.

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 anyo...

Charlie Cole, Photojournalist Behind Iconic Tank Man Photo, Dies at 64

It has been two weeks of constant loss in the photo industry. First we lost Peter Lindbergh, then Robert Frank, and now Charlie Cole, the American

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...

How Robert Frank’s Photographs Helped Define America | The New Yorker

The array of moments that Frank captured and presented is a statement on the broad, unwieldy idea on which the nation is premised.

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 at the time.

Link:
https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/lamerique-de-robert-frank-bb-2-rf/

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 red...

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 was published by Robert Delpire in France in 1958, it consisted of just 83 black and white images, but it changed the nature of photography, what it could say and how it could say it… it remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the 20th century… (Robert Frank) caught what Diane Arbus called the ‘hollowness’ at the heart of many American lives, the chasm between the American dream and the everyday reality.” One of the photographers I know in Cape Breton, Chad Tobin, @tobinchad, has been photographing Robert Frank at his summer home in Mabou, Nova Scotia for ten years now. He and Robert Frank had a special connection.

Link:
http://thephotosociety.org/robert-frank-1925-2019/