He fought apartheid with his camera.
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The photographer was imprisoned numerous times during his career and subjected to a five-year ban that prevented him from working or even leaving his home without police permission.
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He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html
He documented the cruelties of white South African rule, and he was made to pay for it, enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days in solitary confinement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html
Erwitt taught himself photography as a teenager. His most famous work was defined by wit, exuberance, and irrepressible curiosity.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/how-elliott-erwitt-found-his-signature-humor-and-joy/
The camera that he used to create his early pictures, a square-format twin-lens Rolleiflex, was adapted to his disposition at the time. He had to look down into the lens at waist level to see and photograph what was in front of him, and this enabled him to approach people unobtrusively. As the contact sheet with his famous picture of a chihuahua at a woman’s feet shows, the camera could also be set on the ground to capture a worm’s-eye view
The artist captured compelling pictures of celebrities and politicians, dogs just being dogs, and the happenstance whimsy of daily life.
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“Photography is an art of observation,” the artist said best. “It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
Fink, who died in 2023, moved easily between society galas and Pennsylvania farms—and his work was always full of the push and pull of life.
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Fink, who died in November, moved easily between society galas and Pennsylvania farms—and his work was always full of the push and pull of life.
His camera could freeze moments in history, but he also had an eye for the humor and absurdity of everyday life. Dogs were a help there.
His camera could freeze moments in history, but he also had an eye for the humor and absurdity of everyday life. Dogs were a help there.
He was 95.
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“You may not even know that you have a good picture unless you take a look. Taking pictures is a response to what you see and what you think you see. And it’s very easy not to respond to the quality of the image you shot until you see it in a different circumstance.”
The photographer is remembered as a free spirit, honest artist, and great man.
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Fink was celebrated for his distinct photographic style, which showed his subjects somewhat isolated from their surroundings thanks to his use of a handheld off-camera flash, and his authentic depictions of his diverse, wide-ranging subjects.
Dean Conger was a world-renowned photographer with a resume of awards so extensive, it’s hard to list them all. He was a trailblazer in the field of photography, leaving an indelible mark on the world through his lens.
One of the few women at the top of her field in book and magazine publishing, she was also a champion of her fellow professionals.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/arts/helen-marcus-dead.html
Her fame as a photographer, and her leadership role as a defender of her profession on issues of copyright and credit, were all the more notable because the field at the time was so overwhelmingly dominated by men.
Link: https://thephotosociety.org/james-lee-stanfield-1937-2023/
Born into a family of newspaper photographers in Wisconsin, Jim acquired the photography bug naturally, becoming one of the most celebrated and honored of National Geographic’s legendary photographic staff
He was providing a live video signal of the air strikes.
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According to Reuters, videographer Issam Abdallah was killed on Friday evening as he and a group of international journalists were working near the village of Alma al-Shaab in south Lebanon.
Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press,and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer.
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Patrick Hamilton, a combat veteran of the Vietnam War who covered civil wars in Central America as a photojournalist for The Associated Press and later worked at Reuters covering the first Gulf War in Iraq, has died after a long struggle with cancer
She oversaw Modern Photography for 20 years and wrote an acclaimed book about her rough-and-tumble childhood, some of it spent in an orphanage and in remote Alaska.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/books/julia-scully-dead.html
Ms. Scully was also the project director of “The Family of Woman,” a 1979 book of pictures of women from around the world, for which she sifted through 300,000 photographs. It was a response to the photographer and curator Edward Steichen’s popular book “The Family of Man,” which spun off a successful exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955.
Marie-Laure de Decker, the French model who stepped behind the camera to become an internationally recognised war photographer, has died at the age of 75, her family said Saturday.
via France 24: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230715-french-war-photographer-marie-laure-de-decker-dead-at-75-1
On the other hand, she added: “There is an advantage to being a woman, as was the case in South Africa — they don’t kill you right away, they give you a chance.”
A flamboyant photojournalist with the moxie to stand up to autocrats, she captured the intimate moments of leading figures of the 20th century.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/arts/lisl-steiner-dead.html
A flamboyant photojournalist with the moxie to stand up to autocrats, she captured the intimate moments of leading figures of the 20th century.
Renowned Associated Press photojournalist Elise Amendola — a determined, joyous and patient journalist who masterfully photographed pivotal global news and sporting events spanning decades — has died.
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Renowned Associated Press photojournalist Elise Amendola — a determined, joyous and patient journalist who masterfully photographed pivotal global news and sporting events spanning decades — has died. She was 70.
Terrible news.
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The AFP news agency has announced the death of its Ukraine video coordinator Arman Soldin who was killed by rocket fire in the country on Tuesday.
For McCall, the business of getting it down right was a form of self-salvation.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/05/15/remembering-bruce-mccall-satirist-and-compleat-canadian
Not having Bruce here to shock and appall (and, secretly, to delight) with such praise is part of the grief of losing him. All we can do is continue to look at his utterly inimitable visions—at the lonely polar explorers sharing an abandoned Antarctic opera house with a pair of disconsolate penguins—and be grateful that he came south to astonish us
McCall’s friends and colleagues reflect on the late artist’s zeal for life.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-05-15
Bruce McCall, the artist behind the cover for the May 15, 2023, issue, died on May 5th, at the age of eighty-seven. McCall, who insisted upon chewing his beloved Groucho Marx cigars long after a taste for tobacco stopped being even remotely acceptable, was a dear friend and a poet at heart