Link: http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/104923694.html
Photographer Vernon Biever became a legend in his own right – shooting the team and the action for more than half a century – and being inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame in 2002.
Biever died Wednesday at age 87.
He was named Photographer of the Year in the 1965 American College Public Relations Society, Great Lakes Division. Duane was appointed by the U.S. Olympic Committee as an official photographer covering the 1967 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada; 1972 Summer Olympic Games, Munich, Germany; and the 1976 Summer Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada.
“Sadly, it’s true,” his brother Jim Colton told News Photographer magazine on Sunday night. “Jay passed away Saturday in Brazil. We are still in a state of shock. It’s very hard to fathom.” Jay and Jim Colton’s father, photographic legend Sandy Colton, an NPPA Life Member, died in December 2008 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
New York, September 16, 2010–Two photographers were shot by unidentified gunmen in a brazen attack this afternoon in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, the local press reported. One photographer died, and the other was injured….
Link: http://cpj.org/2010/09/two-photographers-shot-in-juarez-one-killed.php
Luis Carlos Santiago, 21, a photographer with the daily El Diario died around 2:45 p.m. after he and an unidentified colleague were shot by gunmen in the parking lot of a shopping mall in Ciudad Juárez
Corinne Day’s photographs of a young Kate Moss caused a huge outcry – then became the defining fashion images of the 90s
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/31/corinne-day-kate-moss
Corinne Day’s photographs of a young Kate Moss caused a huge outcry – then became the defining fashion images of the 90s
Corinne Day hit the headlines in 1990 with a grungy shoot for The Face featuring a then-unknown Kate Moss. She built a highly respected career in fashion and art over the next years but has died, tragically young, after a long illness.
Link: Corinne Day, star of British fashion photography, dies – British Journal of Photography
Frederick Keesing CLINTON TWP. — Frederick Keesing died on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010 at the Country Arch Care Center in Pittstown. Fred was born on January 26, 1913 in New York City. He lived through the Depression and many wars,…
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The past few years it’s been hard for me to pick up a camera. We all know that the industry, at least the editorial side of it, has been at an all time low. Sure, I’ve worked to put a good face on it, like in this piece on the New York Times Lens blog, but more often than not, my desire to make wonderful images has been absent. My heart has just not been there.
Mr. Lockwood, an American photojournalist, documented the treatment of an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam and persuaded Fidel Castro to sit for a highly personal interview.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08lockwood.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Lee Lockwood, an American photojournalist who had rare opportunities to capture political, military and civilian life in Communist countries — documenting the treatment of an American prisoner of war in North Vietnam and persuading Fidel Castro to sit for a long, discursive, smoke-filled and highly personal interview — died on July 31 in Tamarac, Fla. He was 78 and lived in Weston, Fla.
Mr. Hudson’s powerful images of the civil rights era documented police brutality and helped galvanize the public.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/us/27hudson.html?hpw
His most enduring photograph of the era, taken on May 3, 1963, shows an officer in Birmingham grabbing a young black man, Walter Gadsden, and letting a police dog lunge at his stomach.
Photographer and educator Joe Deal, who was instrumental in the development of the landmark exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” in 1975 and was the subject of several solo shows, died June 18 at a hospice in Providence, Rhode Island.
Link: Obituary: Joe Deal, New Topographics Photographer, 62 – PDN Pulse
John Hedgecoe, one of the most significant figures in the history of British photography, has died.
Link: The man who taught the world to photograph – British Journal of Photography
48-year-old Fabio Polenghi was shot as Thai military forces stormed a “Red Shirt” protest camp in an attempt to end a weeks long stand-off involving anti-government protesters and government forces.
Link: Fabio Polenghi Photographer Shot, Killed in Thailand | Newsolio
Al Paglione, a longshoreman-turned-photojournalist who chronicled 35 years in the life of North Jersey, died Wednesday night at Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck. He was 80 and lived in Ridgefield Park.
Link: NorthJersey.com: Al Paglione, self-taught, award-winning Record photographer, dies
Former LIFE photographer Myron Davis, whose iconic images included the “From Here to Eternity” photo of actors Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing on a beach, died on April 17 from injuries suffered in a fire that broke out in his apartment in Hyde Park, Chicago. Davis was 90 years old.
The photographer dropped out of his senior year at the University of Chicago in 1940 to work for the fledgling Life magazine as a freelance photographer, first through the Chicago bureau. When Davis was hired in 1941 he was the youngest photographer on the Life staff.
A.K. Kimoto, a Japanese photographer born in the U.S. in 1977, passed away unexpectedly in the last week in March while preparing to visit FotoFreo Photo Festival in Australia. The following are eulogies by his closest friends celebrating his life and work, published alongside his images of opium addiction in Badakshan, Afghanistan.
Namir Noor-Eldeen stood out among a gifted group of young Iraqi photojournalists who emerged from the war. His well-composed photographs showed his natural sense of color, and his gift for capturing the dramatic moment.
Link: Remembering Namir Noor-Eldeen – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
Namir Noor-Eldeen (Reuters file photo) War encourages casual murder and probably always has, but the most egregious examples are still dismaying. Thanks to whistle-blowers inside the American military and the under-funded wiki site Wikileaks, which anonym
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By all accounts cheerful, helpful and energetic, the then-22-year-old Namir Noor-Eldeen had been interested in photography since boyhood. He was one of the first Iraqis recruited by Retuers for a program intended to train photojournalists who had local ties and local knowledge. Chris Helgren, the former Reuters Chief of Photography who instituted the program, said of Noor-Eldeen before his death that he “started from nothing and is now the pre-eminent photographer in Northern Iraq.”