Category: Obituaries
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Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74
“Jim’s work is legendary,” he said. “As far as music photographers, he is the godfather.” Link: Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74 – Sacramento News – Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee
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Jim Marshall, Photographer of Rock Stars, Dies – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com
Jim Marshall, 74, Photographer of Rock Stars, Dies A photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians. via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/jim-marshall-photographer-of-rock-stars-dies/?partner=rss&emc=rss Jim Marshall, a photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians, including Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop…
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PDNPulse: Pin-up Photographer Peter Gowland, 93, Dies
Link: PDNPulse: Pin-up Photographer Peter Gowland, 93, Dies
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Bill Taub; photographer recorded NASA history – The Boston Globe
Bill Taub, a self-taught NASA photographer whose pictures recorded the country’s major aeronautics and space-flight events from 1958 to 1975, including the missions that sent the first astronauts into orbit and onto the moon, died Feb. 20 at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md. Link: Bill Taub; photographer recorded NASA history – The Boston Globe
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The Online Photographer: Peter Gowland 1916-2010
Peter Gowland 1916-2010 Agh, we’ve lost Peter Gowland. I just heard. Glamor photographer, camera inventor, all-around photographic raconteur, a fixture on the scene. I’d like to take this opportunity to re-publish a brief piece that our friend Oren Grad wrote for this site… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2010/03/peter-gowland-19162010.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29
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JON THORDARSON
Jon’s distinguished career as a photo-journalist began at the Winnipeg Tribune, continued to The Hamilton Spectator and The Winnipeg Sun, culminating as the Design and Graphics editor with the Winnipeg Free Press Link: JON THORDARSON – Winnipeg Free Press
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Charles Moore (rip): I fight with my camera (watch this, please) | duckrabbit
Charles Moore (rip): I fight with my camera (watch this, please) — duckrabbit Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2010/03/charles-moore-rip-i-fight-with-my-camera-watch-this-please/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 The noted historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. said that Moore’s photographs transformed the national mood and made the legislation not…
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Charles Moore Dies; Depicted Rights Battles – Lens
Charles Moore Dies; Depicted Rights Battles Charles Moore, who died last week, took some of the most memorable photographs of the civil rights struggle. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/parting-5/ The photographs are still shocking. In one, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — America’s foremost advocate of nonviolent social change — is manhandled like a common…
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Photographer Moore dies at 79 | TimesDaily.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Charles Moore died Thursday at his home near West Palm Beach, Fla. Link: Photographer Moore dies at 79 | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL
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PDNPulse: Four Photographers Among Record Number of Journalists Killed in 2009
Link: PDNPulse: Four Photographers Among Record Number of Journalists Killed in 2009
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Alfred Gregory obituary | The Guardian
Alfred Gregory obituary Mountaineer and photographer who recorded the Everest expedition of 1953 via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/10/alfred-gregory-obituary There are some people who, by their presence and solidity, immediately impress, and Alfred Gregory, who has died aged 96, was one of them: the grave, lined face, the faded blue eyes puckering into ready laughter under a…
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Harry Diamond obituary | The Guardian
Harry Diamond obituary Photographer who snapped Freud, Bacon and the bohemians of Soho via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/27/harry-diamond-obituary The photographer Harry Diamond, who has died from a brain haemorrhage aged 85, captured the “faces” of bohemian Soho in the 1960s and 70s. He frequented the London watering holes favoured by artists including Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, and soon…
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Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81 – NYTimes.com
Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81 Mr. Stock was a photographer whose intimate and evocative portraits captured the essence of jazz performance and helped shape James Dean’s moody public persona. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15stock.html?partner=rss&emc=rss “The goal for the photographer is to be visually articulate. If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is…
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PDNPulse: William Glover, Founder of The Granger Collection Image Library, Dies at 76
As many picture editors and researchers know well, Mr. Glover’s dedication to the collection and accuracy of its contents set industry standards the world over Link: PDNPulse: William Glover, Founder of The Granger Collection Image Library, Dies at 76
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Thoughts of a Bohemian » An eye closed
There is nothing worst for a photographer, like for an actor, to be typecast. For Dennis Stock, who passed away this week, that is what happened. Ultra famous for the iconic images he took of James Dean just before he became famous, he had to drag this notoriety like a canon ball tied to his…
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PDNPulse: Dennis Stock, Photographer of Iconic James Dean Images, Dies at 81
Link: PDNPulse: Dennis Stock, Photographer of Iconic James Dean Images, Dies at 81
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Parting Glance: Dennis Stock, 1928-2010 – Lens
Parting Glance: Dennis Stock, 1928-2010 Dennis Stock, whose photographs may have done almost as much to create James Dean’s public persona as the actor’s own performances, died Monday in Florida. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/parting-4/ “Dennis Stock seems impeccably contemporary in his perceptions, whether they be of splendid nature or ‘peccable’ humanity,” the critic and essayist…
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DOUG MENUEZ 2.0: GO FAST, DON'T CRASH
An example of the kind of thing we would talk about a lot was compostion. During our last talk, without any sense of bragging or ego, Dennis Stock said, “for whatever reason, I was given the ability to frame anything. I can make a great composition instinctively.” He was stating a fact. Just look at…
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Photojournalist Dennis Stock 1928-2010 « The 37th Frame
Link: Photojournalist Dennis Stock 1928-2010 « News Releases « The 37th Frame – Celebrating the Best of Photojournalism