Len Speier’s images capture the spontaneous humor and peculiarities of the human condition. Speier delighted in the odd moment, the unexpected juxtaposition, the sudden reveal of a subject’s true self.
It was shocking news to find out about the death of Ren Hang this past Thursday. Ren Hang, 29, was one of the most prominent Chinese photographers of his time, and his pictures are some of the most recognizable throughout the world. Much of his work has b
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It was shocking news to find out about the death of Ren Hang this past Thursday. Ren Hang, 29, was one of the most prominent Chinese photographers of his time, and his pictures are some of the most recognizable throughout the world
We celebrate their lives and the contributions they made to the world
via Time: http://time.com/4385844/the-photographers-we-lost-in-2016/
From Marc Riboud to David Gilkey and Bill Cunningham, TIME LightBox pays tribute to the photographers we lost in 2016, celebrating their lives and the contributions they made to the medium of photography and to the world.
“I’m devastated,” wrote World Press Photo Managing Director Lars Boering yesterday upon hearing that talented Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans had
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“I’m devastated,” wrote World Press Photo Managing Director Lars Boering yesterday upon hearing that talented Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlemans had been killed in Libya. “Again we lose one of the best and we also lose a very nice human being.”
Dutch photojournalist Jeroen Oerlmans, 45, was killed in Sirte, Libya. He was shot by a sniper fighting for ISIS.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/10/photojournalist-jeroen-oerlmans-killed-libya.html
Dutch foreign minister Bert Koenders said in a statement released yesterday, “Oerlemans is a journalist who kept going where others stopped, driven to put the news into pictures in the world’s hot spots. It is profoundly sad that he has now paid the ultimate price for this.”
I don’t want to make an inventory but the memories are there. They’ll stay there, just like the images, just like the books. After having written some lines, I begin to realise that the loss is immense. Immense. Full stop.
A generation of photography pillars is frittering away. On Wednesday August 31st 2016, Nathan Lyons (1930-2016), co-founder of the Society for Photographic education (1962 and 1963), assistant director at the George Eastman House (until 1969), and mostly known as the founder and director of Visual Studies Workshop and its international magazine, Afterimage, (1969-2001) passed away in Rochester NY.
A Nathan Lyons comes along once in a generation. He has left his mark on so many. He will be missed. All of us in the photographic family extend our condolences to Joan Lyons, his devoted wife and fellow artist, and his family, that goes way beyond blood lines.
I witnessed and was affected by the turbulence of his abrupt exit as one of 11 members of the “Futures Committee”—the “young Turks,” as we were known— commissioned to produce a “Report to the Editor.” We had been asked to provide a blueprint for the magazine in coming decades, identify weaknesses, inefficiencies, and propose solutions; in short, our mission was “to turn an elephant into a jaguar.” Garrett was fired a week after the report was published. Some of the staff blamed us.
Wilbur “Bill” Garrett, who methodically raised the standards for photography at National Geographic and pushed for coverage of timely and sometimes controversial subjects during his tenure as editor in the 1980s, died at his home on August 13, National Ge
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Garrett began pushing for a more photojournalistic approach to Geographic photography as soon as he joined the magazine as a photo editor in the mid 1950s
The killing of a young Libyan photojournalist named Abdel-Kader Fassouk, on July 21, 2016, in Sirte, Libya, will likely never be more than a footnote to what increasingly seems like a widespread war on journalists. Fassouk wasn’t famous, and the number
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THE KILLING of a young Libyan photojournalist named Abdel-Kader Fassouk, on July 21, 2016, in Sirte, Libya, will likely never be more than a footnote to what increasingly seems like a widespread war on journalists. Fassouk wasn’t famous, and the number of journalists killed in conflict zones is so staggering that another one seems sadly commonplace.
He was known for his pictures of Presidents and pop stars
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The longtime Washington photographer, known for his pictures of Presidents and pop stars, passed away last week at age 81.
Washington, July 22, 2016–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of Arraed television correspondent and prominent Libyan photojournalist Abdelqadir Fassouk, who was shot yesterday while covering clashes between government-allied
Link: https://www.cpj.org/2016/07/abdelqadir-fassouk-second-libyan-photojournalist-t.php
The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of Arraed television correspondent and prominent Libyan photojournalist Abdelqadir Fassouk, who was shot yesterday while covering clashes between government-allied forces and the militant group Islamic State, according to his news outlet.
British war photographer Paul Conroy, who was was injured during the attack in Baba Amr, describes his experience working with Marie Colvin.
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A civil lawsuit filed Saturday on behalf of Colvin’s family members alleges that Syrian forces tracked and killed Colvin to silence opposition voices against the regime, targeting her position in the opposition-held city of Homs by intercepting her broadcasts.
David Gilkey’s family, friends and colleagues gathered at the Portland Art Museum Friday afternoon to remember the loyal, brave and “complex” man they loved.
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In front of a crowd of 200 at the Portland Art Museum, she recounted stories of her adventurous son, the one who would wiggle his crib around the room, who loved the book “Go Dog Go” at bedtime and who couldn’t sit still long enough to take a test.
Mr. Schanberg won a Pulitzer Prize for covering the fall of the Lon Nol regime to the Khmer Rouge in 1970s Cambodia. His account of a colleague’s survival during the genocide of millions inspired the film “The Killing Fields.”
“Our decision to stay,” Mr. Schanberg wrote later, “was founded on our belief — perhaps, looking back, it was more a devout wish or hope — that when the Khmer Rouge won their victory, they would have what they wanted and would end the terrorism and brutal behavior we had written so often about.”
Whether you were photographed just once by Bill Cunningham, or hundreds of times like favored subjects Anna Wintour, Iris Apfel and Alexandra Lebenthal, it was an experience not to be forgotten. Here, some memories from people who found themselves of the
Whether you were photographed just once by Bill Cunningham, or hundreds of times like his favored subjects Anna Wintour, Iris Apfel and Alexandra Lebenthal, it was an experience not to be forgotten. Here, some memories from people who found themselves of the other side of the lens from Mr. Cunningham. (Interviews have been edited and condensed.)
His colleagues remember.
John Kurdewan
“He brought honesty. He’d say, ‘Do you think people are getting bored with my pages?’ I was with him when he was sick and in the hospital and he was still talking about his pages. He’d go, ‘26, 29, 31.’ The doctors said, ‘What is he saying?’ I said, ‘He’s telling me to take a photo and move it over here.’ To the very end, he was still working on his pages.”
Friends and family members went to the Church of St. Thomas More in Manhattan to pay their respects to the photographer, who died on Saturday.
At Bill Cunningham’s funeral on Thursday morning, Anna Wintour wore blue Carolina Herrera, Annette de la Renta had on a light pleated summer dress that went to the knee, and Mercedes Bass opted for basic black.
His work forms an anthropological study of our society’s fashion
via Time: http://time.com/4382904/bill-cunningham-fashion-photographer-dead/
His work forms an anthropological study of our society’s fashion