Category: Obituaries
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Evelyn Hofer, Subtle Photographer of People and Places, Dies at 87
Evelyn Hofer, Subtle Photographer of People and Places, Dies at 87 Ms. Hofer was a photographer whose portraits imparted a grave serenity to her subjects and who collaborated on a renowned series of travel books in the 1950s and 1960s. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/arts/design/10hofer.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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Nien Cheng, Memoirist Who Was Persecuted in China, Dies at 94 – NYTimes.com
Nien Cheng, Memoirist, Is Dead at 94 Ms. Cheng’s memoir, “Life and Death in Shanghai,” offered a harrowing account of the Cultural Revolution in China. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/books/07cheng.html?partner=rss&emc=rss In 1973 she was told that the authorities had agreed to release her in recognition of an “improvement in her way of thinking and an attitude of repentance.”…
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Parting Glance: Roy DeCarava, 1919-2009 – Lens Blog
Smooth, silky, smoky and gentle; as formal as you might expect from the painter he once wanted to be, Roy DeCarava’s photographs speak in a language far softer than we’re accustomed to now. They are no less powerful for their subtlety. They are meant to repay close study and they do. Link: Parting Glance: Roy…
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Photographer Clyde W. “Red” Hare Jr., 82
Link: Photographer Clyde W. “Red” Hare Jr., 82: He was born July 11, 1927, in Bloomington, IN, and graduated from Indiana University there. He was a freelance photographer for more than 50 years in western Pennsylvania where some of his elite corporate clients included U.S. Steel, Westinghouse, and Heinz.
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Marty Forscher, Tended Cameras and Owners, Dies at 87
Marty Forscher, Who Tended Cameras and Owners, Dies at 87 Mr. Forscher’s intimate knowledge of the anatomy and physiology of the camera made him for decades the most sought-after camera repairman in the country. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/nyregion/11forscher.html?_r=1&partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099 Whether one’s camera had plunged into the sea, fallen from a skyscraper, been smashed in a riot or been…
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Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92
Irving Penn, Fashion Photographer, Is Dead at 92 Mr. Penn’s blend of elegance and minimalism made him one of the most influential photographers of the century. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/arts/design/08penn.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Mr. Penn’s talent for picturing his subjects with compositional clarity and economy earned him the widespread admiration of readers of Vogue during his long association with the…
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Ival Lawhon knew how to capture a moment
Link: stjoenews.net | Lawhon knew how to capture a moment: Ival Lawhon Jr., a dogged photographer who captured three decades of fires, floods and poignant personal moments, died Saturday night. He was 61. via Gerik
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PDN: Marty Forscher, Inventor and Camera Repair Guru, Dies at 87
Link: PDN: Marty Forscher, Inventor and Camera Repair Guru, Dies at 87
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Bobby Model, Prominent Adventure Photographer, Dies at 36
Link: Bobby Model, Prominent Adventure Photographer, Dies at 36 – NYTimes.com: Mr. Model’s work appeared in National Geographic, Outside, The New York Times and other publications. His assignments took him from the rivers of Burundi, where he searched for a fabled man-eating crocodile, to the Nameless Tower of northern Pakistan, one of the world’s largest…
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Retired White House Photographer Killed In Carolina Car Crash
Link: Retired White House Photographer Killed In Carolina Car Crash – NPPA: Starting in 1967, and for the next 19 years, Jack Kightlinger photographed Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, before retiring during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Those who knew Kightlinger said that he was proud of a large framed…
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French photographer Willy Ronis dies at age 99
Link: French photographer Willy Ronis dies at age 99 – lens culture photography weblog: French photographer Willy Ronis died today in Paris, apparently lively and active until the end. His work captured the romance of French culture of the mid-20th century with classic, poetic beauty.
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John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog
Link: John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog – NYTimes.com: Sultan Munadi is dead, and a British paratrooper whose name we may never know. There may also have been Afghan casualties, perhaps Taliban, perhaps not; that we also don’t know yet, for sure. But from where I am writing this, on a sunny…
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Documentary Filmmaker Christian Poveda Shot Dead In El Salvador
Documentary Filmmaker Christian Poveda Shot Dead In El Salvador: Poveda was driving back from La Campanera, an overcrowded ghetto that is a stronghold of the Mara 18 gang, when he was apparently ambushed, The Times reported from London. Poveda’s body was discovered in a car in the poor, rural area.
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PDNPulse: Mary Morris Lawrence, First Female AP Photographer, Dies at 95
PDNPulse: Mary Morris Lawrence, First Female AP Photographer, Dies at 95: Her obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle ends with the suggestion: “In lieu of flowers, Mary would ask you to join the League of Women Voters, shop at Farmer Joes, write a letter to the editor, or break a glass ceiling!”
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PDNPulse: Angus McDougall, Photojournalist and Educator, Dies at 92
PDNPulse: Angus McDougall, Photojournalist and Educator, Dies at 92: an obituary by David Rees, the current photojournalism chair at the Missouri School of Journalism and co-director of the Missouri Photo Workshop
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Photojournalism Legend Angus W. "Mac" McDougall, 92
Photojournalism Legend Angus W. “Mac” McDougall, 92: McDougall set standards of excellence in photography, photography editing, and photojournalism education. As a Milwaukee Journal photographer, he was an innovator in the use of high-speed strobe technology and in using multiple pictures to tell stories. He tested his theories of visual communication and formed many of his…
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Marcey Jacobson, Photographer of Mexican Indians, Dies at 97
Marcey Jacobson, Photographer of Mexican Indians, Dies at 97 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com: Marcey Jacobson, a self-taught photographer from New York City who spent decades in the southern Mexican highlands documenting the lives of the indigenous Indian peoples, died on July 26 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, in the state of Chiapas.…
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Bill Jay | Photographer and writer
Bill Jay | Photographer and writer | The Guardian: Bill Jay, who has died aged 68, started out as a photographer but made his reputation as a writer on and advocate of photography. He was the first editor, in 1968, of the immensely influential magazine Creative Camera and then founder, in 1970, of Album photo-magazine (which ran for…
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Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel
Art – Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel – NYTimes.com: The memorial exhibition for the New York artist Dash Snow, who died last week of a drug overdose at 27, is a casual, personal thing with no formal title and a simple organizing principle: people who knew Mr. Snow were…