Category: Obituaries
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The Interpreter of Memories From The Killing Fields
By Elizabeth Becker So how did Dith Pran, a sophisticated journalist, survive when the Khmer Rouge was rooting out and killing most intellectuals? A Cambodian banker I know survived by playing the village idiot. Pran survived by reading character. His brilliance as a journalist for figuring out chaotic situations in war was critical during the…
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Four Photojournalists Killed During Vietnam War Come Home For Burial
Remains from the crash site where four photojournalists were killed when their helicopter went down in Laos during the Vietnam war will be buried on Thursday April 3, 2008, during a ceremony at the Newseum in Washington. On February 10, 1971, photographers Henri Huet, 43, of the Associated Press, Larry Burrows, 44, of Life magazine,…
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Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65
Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people’s rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J., on Sunday. He was 65 and lived in Woodbridge, N.J. Check it…
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Photojournalist Dennis R. Warren, dead at 62
Dennis R. Warren, a prolific freelance photojournalist who captured revealing images of a who’s who of state and national political figures, from Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan to Cesar Chavez and Robert Kennedy, died Friday. He was 62. The cause was heart failure, said his sister, Debbie Carroll. Starting with a Brownie camera and a…
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Photographer dies while trying to put out fire
John Gumm’s son, Jim Gumm, said his father was an accomplished photographer who worked for the Oklahoma Publishing Company in the 1950s and ’60s. “I’ve been a photographer for 25 years, and I can’t even come close to him as far as the technical side,” he said. “He was a phenomenal man, just a very…
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Photographer sought truth — chicagotribune.com
Archie Lieberman roamed the world as a photojournalist. But he found fodder for one of his most memorable books on a farm nestled in the rolling hills of Jo Daviess County, a few hours west of his Evanston home. Mr. Lieberman, 81, died of a neurological disease similar to Parkinson’s on Thursday, March 13, at…
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Philip Jones Griffiths 1936-2008 – Magnum Photos
It was Philip’s consummate skill as a picture maker, carefully able to draw the viewer closer and closer to his subjects through his emotionally-charged compositions that lent such power to his work. Philip was always concerned with individuals – their personal and intimate suffering more than any particular class or ideological struggle. And the strength…
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War photographer Philip Jones Griffith dies at 72
British photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths, known for his unflinching coverage of the Vietnam war, died on Tuesday aged 72, the Magnum photo agency said. Born in Wales in 1936, Griffith Jones launched his career as a freelancer for Britain’s Observer newspaper in 1961, covering the Algerian war in 1962 before travelling across central Africa. In…
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Friend's Death Shows Cost of Iraq War – washingtonpost.com
The Death of Russian photographer Dmitry Chebotayev. In my nightmares, the helicopters still come out of a dark sky, two black spots barely visible against the backdrop of night. Their swirling blades grow louder until they finally touch down on earth and fall silent. They look like giant steel bugs from another planet, bulbous robots…
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JS Online: Iraq copter crash kills area airman
As an aspiring photojournalist, Christopher Scott Frost wouldn’t stop until he got that one shot that would bring a story to life, his father said Wednesday.And as a member of the U.S. Air Force serving in Iraq, he got to employ his relentless pursuit of stories as an editor of a military publication, Gary Frost…
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Dungeons & Dragons Creator Gary Gygax Passes Away; Interview on Gadgets – Boing Boing
According to a post on Troll Lord Games, the company that had published his most recent work, Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons, has passed away Check it out here.
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Theo Westenberger, Magazine And Advertising Photographer, Dies At 57
Theo Westenberger, whose versatility with portraits and travel images won her recognition as a top magazine and advertising photographer, has died. Westenberger died Thursday at her home in New York after a four-year battle with lung cancer, according to Colleen Keegan, a friend and her artistic executor. She was 57. Check it out here.
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Rick Selvin dies, was writer, editor at Daily News | Philadelphia Daily News | 02/14/2008
Rick Selvin arrived at the Daily News in 1980 to apply for a job. When he got to then-managing editor Zack Stalberg’s office, he hesitated at the door. “I’m really sorry,” Rick said. “What are you sorry about?” Zack inquired. “Well, I usually wear a necktie to these interviews,” Rick said, “but my tie was…
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Lynn Demarest; captured vivid moments from around world – The Boston Globe
Eluned (McLaren) Demarest saw the poverty of India and the ruins of post-World War II Berlin through the lenses of cameras. Mrs. Demarest, an award-winning photographer who scoured the world for poignant pictures, died Jan. 28 at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Needham of cardiopulmonary arrest. The Westwood resident was 85. Her Welsh name was…
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Jorge Lewinski obituary – Times Online
: Jorge Lewinski was a tireless and vivid chronicler of the world of modern art. If he never quite achieved the public acknowledgement he deserved, this was in part the result of his steadfast – some would say stubborn – vision for his remarkable collection of more than 300 photographic portraits of British artists. Check…
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State of the Art: Remembering Life Photographer Allan Grant
: One of the great photographers from Life magazine’s golden age, Allan Grant, died on February 1 at his home in Brentwood, California. He was 88 years old. Other Life photographers, such as Alfred Eisenstaedt and Margaret Bourke-White, were better known than Grant. But few covered as wide a variety of stories. Among his most…
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Why We Needed Henry Froehlich – – PopPhotoJanuary 2008
: The photographic realm has just lost two giants with the deaths of Popular Photography’s Burt Keppler and, now, of Henry Froehlich, former head of medium-format mainstay Mamiya America. Though less visible than Burt to readers of photography magazines, Henry was just as influential in the photo industry, and in many of the same ways.…
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Bernie Boston, 74; Took Iconic 1967 Photograph – washingtonpost.com
Check it out: Bernie Boston, 74; Took Iconic 1967 Photograph – washingtonpost.com Mr. Boston, who retired from the Los Angeles Times, was working for the Washington Star on Oct. 21, 1967, when he took the image he called “Flower Power.” The man with the flowers was later identified as teenage actor George Harris. He was…
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Remembering Ray
Remembering Ray: “Ray Farkas, one of the visionaries of video storytelling passed away recently. Known more as a producer than photographer, Ray’s legend is in large part due to the ‘Farkas look’ of his video stories. After placing wireless mics on his subjects, he made sure the camera was far away from them and often…
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Bernard "Bernie" Boston, 74, Retired Los Angeles Times Photojournalist, Was An Icon
Bernard “Bernie” Boston, 74, Retired Los Angeles Times Photojournalist, Was An Icon: “Retired Los Angeles Times photojournalist Bernard ‘Bernie’ Boston, 74, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and an NPPA Life Member, died today at his home in rural Virginia. Boston is probably best remembered for his iconic photograph of a young Vietnam war protester putting…