Mr. Morse, a Bronx native, was, at 24, the weekly magazine’s youngest war photographer and later covered the Mercury space program.
“If Life could afford only one photographer,” George P. Hunt, who was the magazine’s managing editor in the 1960s, once said, “it would have to be Ralph Morse.”
Nell Cooper, 89, the widow of the late Charles H. Cooper, executive director emeritus of the National Press Photographers Association, died Thursday at home in Durham surrounded by her family. She was surrounded by her family following a brief period of d
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The bill goes on to state that possessing and distributing photos that were captured by unlawful drone usage is also an offense, and that unlawful drone usage puts you at risk of civil lawsuits and $1,000 for each photo of a person or property photographed unlawfully.
Elisabetta Catalano’s funeral took place in Rome, many friends and people payed tribute to a woman who loved art and photography. It seems strange, that she is not with us anymore. But she left us, as a precious heritage , her portraits, her story and the stories of those portrayed by her. She used to photograph artists and intellectuals.
Tim Kelly, a gentle giant who chronicled major Utah news events through his work as a longtime
via The Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/news/2040127-155/tribune-photographer-tim-kelly-dies-at
Kelly began his career at The Tribune in 1967 and retired in 1998. His legacy of memorable photographs includes iconic images of Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah in 1977, and Vickie Singer, arrested with her daughters after a 1988 standoff between police and her polygamist son-in-law, Adam Swapp.
Robert Brush, who was president of the National Press Photographers Association in 1979, died Monday at his home in Hackensack, NJ, according to his family.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/robert-brush-former-nppa-president
Brush received NPPA’s highest honor, the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, in 1984, as well as the Joseph Costa Award in 1978
Jane Bown at home, surrounded by some of her photographs. We are reached this morning with news of the death of the great Jane Bown. The quintessential photojournalistic portraitist, she worked for the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, the UK’s The…
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We are reached this morning with news of the death of the great Jane Bown. The quintessential photojournalistic portraitist, she worked for the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, the UK’s The Observer, for more than half a century, beginning 65 years ago.
Michel du Cille’s quiet passion is powerfully conveyed in the photographs of his subjects. Dozens of stories over the last week have emphatically described him: extraordinarily empathetic, a witness to history, a brilliant student of people, with professional integrity and personal grace. All true.
“He worked in images, but his passion was reality.”
via Time: http://time.com/3631397/michel-du-cille-obituary/
That he eagerly volunteered to go into combat in Afghanistan after cancer treatment and a pair of knee replacements tells you a lot of what you need to know about Michelangelo Everard du Cille
Beyond the three Pulitzer Prizes Michel du Cille won was his determination to portray his subjects with dignity and respect. He died on Thursday in Liberia, where he had been covering the Ebola outbreak.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/michel-du-cille-a-photographer-with-compassion-and-respect/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
“To understand Michel you have to understand that he had a deep moral compass,” said Mr. Winslow, who is the editor of the National Press Photographers Association magazine. “At the same time, he was the most kind and gentle person I knew in this profession.”
For The Miami Herald and then The Washington Post, Mr. du Cille captured people in dire circumstances, including a natural disaster and drugs and poverty.
“We are all heartbroken,” Mr. Baron said. “We have lost a beloved colleague and one of the world’s most accomplished photographers.”
If he wasn’t shooting a photo, he was thinking of the next photo he was going to shoot.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/11/covering-ebola-with-michel-du-cille/
If Michel du Cille wasn’t shooting a photo, he was thinking of the next photo he was going to shoot. He had a head full of messages he wanted to convey from our two trips to Liberia, things he believed the people had to see, to understand. It was only a question of where and when he would find the perfect image to tell the story.
Michel du Cille, 58, a photojournalist for The Washington Post who has been covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, collapsed and died today in rural Liberia while hiking back from a remote village.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/michel-du-cille-58-dies-rural-liberia
Du Cille won three Pulitzer Prizes during his career, two for photography at The Miami Herald and one at the Post. At the Herald he shared his first Pulitzer with Carol Guzy for their coverage of the deadly Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia. His second Pulitzer in Miami was for his documentary picture story of crack addicts in a public housing project, published in The Herald’s Sunday magazine, Tropic. Then in 2008 he shared his third Pulitzer, with Post reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull, for their investigative series on the treatment of military veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
We have lost a beloved colleague and one of the world’s most accomplished photographers. Our thoughts and prayers are with Michel’s wife and fellow Post photographer Nikki Kahn, and his two children.
Morse is best remembered for his iconic images of NASA’s earliest astronauts and the developing space program of the 1960s.
via Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/12/ralph-morse-dies-at-97
Morse is best remembered, however, for his iconic images of NASA’s earliest astronauts and the developing space program of the 1960s. So woven into this fabric of innovation and exploration was he, that Morse was often called “the eighth astronaut,” as he documented the original Mercury Seven exclusively for Life magazine.
Photographer Ralph Morse, who covered war, sports, science, celebrities, theater, and other assignments during his long career as a staff photographer for LIFE and TIME magazines, died December 7 at his home in Florida. He was 97. Morse’s death was report
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/12/obituary-life-photographer-ralph-morse-97.html
Morse’s death was reported yesterday by TIME magazine, which said on its website that “no photographer in the history of LIFE magazine had a more varied, thrilling and productive career.” Morse became LIFE’s youngest World War II correspondent when he joined the magazine in 1941 at the age of 24.
Kidnapped photojournalist Luke Somers was killed December 5 in the midst of a failed attempt by US forces to rescue him from al Qaeda militants holding him hostage in Yemen. Somers, 33, had been kidnapped in Sana’a, Yemen, in September 2013. He had been
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/12/luke-somers-killed-failed-rescue-attempt-remembered-compassionate-photos.html
Shelley Calton had been reflecting on the significance of firearms, especially among the unassuming women who have decided to always carry one. She wanted to know what, in the collective feminine experience, drives women to acquire a instrument that can kill, and how they interact with it in their daily routines.
Known for his crisp, emotionally provocative images, Mr. Leipzig was of a generation of socially minded photographers who took to the streets to record life as they encountered it.
“No photograph,” he wrote in “Growing Up in New York,” “no matter how good it is, is worth hurting people.”
After trekking almost seven miles in the darkness, Navy SEALs came under fire within 300 feet of the compound where American Luke Somers and South African Pierre Korkie were held.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hagel-us-hostage-murdered-in-yemen/2014/12/06/959c0e4c-7d33-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html?wprss=rss_world
“Both Luke Somers and a second non-U.S. citizen hostage were murdered by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terrorists during the course of the operation,” Hagel said during a visit to Afghanistan.
Larry Nighswander, a former Ohio University School of Visual Communication professor and director of OU’s VisCom program as well as a prominent photojournalist and picture editor, died suddenly Wednesday in Orlando, according to his family and friends.
via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/larry-nighswander-67
Larry Nighswander, a former Ohio University School of Visual Communication professor and director of OU’s VisCom program as well as a prominent photojournalist and picture editor, died suddenly Wednesday in Orlando, according to his family and friends
This exceptional interview was the final one given by the late Lewis Baltz. It was conducted by his friend, Jeff Rian. Baltz, a secretive and reserved person, speaks unreservedly here of his life and work. Thank you, Jeff, and thank you, Diane Dufour, who suggested us last summer during the Baltz exhibition at Le BAL in Paris.
Farewell, Lewis, you were an incredible man.