Category: Obituaries
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Penny Tweedie obituary | The Guardian
Penny Tweedie obituary Intrepid photographer who documented wars around the world and Aboriginal life via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/jan/20/penny-tweedie-obituary While covering that war, she was summoned to a victory celebration outside Dhaka. Penny realised that some very frightened prisoners, accused of collaboration, were about to be bayoneted to death for the benefit of the foreign press. She and a…
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Injured French photographer "clinically dead" [update 5] – British Journal of Photography
French photographer, Lucas Mebrouk Dolega, is said to be clinically dead, three days after he was shot, in the face, by a tear gas canister while covering the civil unrest in Tunisia, BJP has been told. Link: Injured French photographer “clinically dead” [update 5] – British Journal of Photography
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Journalists Killed in 2010 – Committee to Protect Journalists
Explore CPJ’s database of attacks on the press Link: http://cpj.org/killed/2010/ 44 Journalists Killed in 2010/Motive Confirmed
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Mickey Pfleger – 'He was always smiling!'
Brad Mangin: Mickey Pfleger enjoys a wonderful Saturday afternoon photographing the Redskins @ 49ers game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in December of 2004. After a long illness, Mickey Pfleger, a freelance sports photographer, friend and mentor to many photographers around the country, died Friday morning in Carmichael (near Sacramento), CA. He was 61.…
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Former BJP editor, photographic inventor, author, and the man who uncovered the world's longest-running photographic hoax has died – British Journal of Photography
Geoffrey Crawley, the world-esteemed former editor of British Journal of Photography, has died. Link: Former BJP editor, photographic inventor, author, and the man who uncovered the world’s longest-running photographic hoax has died [updated] – British Journal of Photography
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Chris Gulker: Mar. 10, 1951 – Oct. 27, 2010 — InMenlo
InMenlo founder Chris Gulker: Mar. 10, 1951 – Oct. 27, 2010 InMenlo.com – Daily News and Features about Menlo Park and Atherton California via InMenlo.com: http://inmenlo.com/2010/10/28/inmenlo-founder-chris-gulker-mar-10-1951-oct-27-2010 When I started at the Herald, it was a news-driven paper, focusing on freeway crashes and house fires. I kept a police and fire scanner in my car and…
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Jay Colton: A Celebration Of Life Planned
Saturday, November 6, at The Bath House Studios in New York City Link: Jay Colton: A Celebration Of Life Planned
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Longtime photographer Biever helped shape Packers legends – JSOnline
Longtime photographer Biever helped shape Packers legends Link: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/104923694.html Photographer Vernon Biever became a legend in his own right – shooting the team and the action for more than half a century – and being inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2002. Biever died Wednesday at age 87.
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Obituary for Duane William Hopp :: Madison.com
He was named Photographer of the Year in the 1965 American College Public Relations Society, Great Lakes Division. Duane was appointed by the U.S. Olympic Committee as an official photographer covering the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada; 1972 Summer Olympic Games, Munich, Germany; and the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada. Link:…
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Jay Colton Dies In Brazil At Photo Workshop
“Sadly, it’s true,” his brother Jim Colton told News Photographer magazine on Sunday night. “Jay passed away Saturday in Brazil. We are still in a state of shock. It’s very hard to fathom.” Jay and Jim Colton’s father, photographic legend Sandy Colton, an NPPA Life Member, died in December 2008 after a lengthy battle with…
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Two Mexican photographers shot in Juárez; one killed – Committee to Protect Journalists
Two Mexican photographers shot in Juárez; one killed New York, September 16, 2010–Two photographers were shot by unidentified gunmen in a brazen attack this afternoon in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, the local press reported. One photographer died, and the other was injured…. Link: http://cpj.org/2010/09/two-photographers-shot-in-juarez-one-killed.php Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, a photographer with the…
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Former AP photographer George Sweers dies in Fla. – Florida AP – MiamiHerald.com
Former AP photographer George Sweers dies in Fla. – MiamiHerald.com
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Corinne Day: raw genius | Art and design | The Guardian
Corinne Day: raw genius Corinne Day’s photographs of a young Kate Moss caused a huge outcry – then became the defining fashion images of the 90s via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/31/corinne-day-kate-moss Corinne Day’s photographs of a young Kate Moss caused a huge outcry – then became the defining fashion images of the 90s
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Corinne Day, star of British fashion photography, dies – British Journal of Photography
Corinne Day hit the headlines in 1990 with a grungy shoot for The Face featuring a then-unknown Kate Moss. She built a highly respected career in fashion and art over the next years but has died, tragically young, after a long illness. Link: Corinne Day, star of British fashion photography, dies – British Journal of…
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Obituaries: Frederick Keesing, retired photo editor for the Courier-News | NJ.com
Obituaries: Frederick Keesing, retired photo editor for the Courier-News Frederick Keesing CLINTON TWP. — Frederick Keesing died on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 at the Country Arch Care Center in Pittstown. Fred was born on January 26, 1913 in New York City. He lived through the Depression and many wars,… via nj: http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2010/08/obituaries_frederick_keesing_r.html The past few…
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Herman Leonard, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 87 – PDN Pulse
Herman Leonard, Jazz Photographer, Dies at 87 – PDN Pulse
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Lee Lockwood Dies at 78 – Captured Life Under Communism
Lee Lockwood Dies at 78; Captured Life Under Communism Mr. Lockwood, an American photojournalist, documented the treatment of an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam and persuaded Fidel Castro to sit for a highly personal interview. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08lockwood.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss Lee Lockwood, an American photojournalist who had rare opportunities to capture political, military and civilian life…
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Bill Hudson, 77, a Photojournalist During the Civil Rights Era
Bill Hudson, a Photojournalist During the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 77 Mr. Hudson’s powerful images of the civil rights era documented police brutality and helped galvanize the public. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/us/27hudson.html?hpw His most enduring photograph of the era, taken on May 3, 1963, shows an officer in Birmingham grabbing a young black man, Walter Gadsden,…
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Obituary: Joe Deal, New Topographics Photographer, 62 – PDN Pulse
Photographer and educator Joe Deal, who was instrumental in the development of the landmark exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” in 1975 and was the subject of several solo shows, died June 18 at a hospice in Providence, Rhode Island. Link: Obituary: Joe Deal, New Topographics Photographer, 62 – PDN Pulse
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The man who taught the world to photograph – British Journal of Photography
John Hedgecoe, one of the most significant figures in the history of British photography, has died. Link: The man who taught the world to photograph – British Journal of Photography