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44 Journalists Killed in 2010/Motive Confirmed
Category: Obituaries
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Journalists Killed in 2010 – Committee to Protect Journalists
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Mickey Pfleger – 'He was always smiling!'
Brad Mangin:
Mickey Pfleger enjoys a wonderful Saturday afternoon photographing the Redskins @ 49ers game at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in December of 2004.
After a long illness, Mickey Pfleger, a freelance sports photographer, friend and mentor to many photographers around the country, died Friday morning in Carmichael (near Sacramento), CA. He was 61.Many people remember Mickey from the stories published during the past 10-years on SportsShooter.com. In November, 2000, he was crushed out of bounds by Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony Gonzalez during a game against the San Francisco 49ers at Candlestick Park, and was rushed to the hospital, where an MRI revealed he had a brain tumor. After this Mickey’s life was never the same.
Link: ‘He was always smiling!’
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Former BJP editor, photographic inventor, author, and the man who uncovered the world's longest-running photographic hoax has died – British Journal of Photography
Geoffrey Crawley, the world-esteemed former editor of British Journal of Photography, has died.
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Chris Gulker: Mar. 10, 1951 – Oct. 27, 2010 — InMenlo
InMenlo founder Chris Gulker: Mar. 10, 1951 – Oct. 27, 2010
InMenlo.com – Daily News and Features about Menlo Park and Atherton California
via InMenlo.com: http://inmenlo.com/2010/10/28/inmenlo-founder-chris-gulker-mar-10-1951-oct-27-2010
When I started at the Herald, it was a news-driven paper, focusing on freeway crashes and house fires. I kept a police and fire scanner in my car and in my house and pretty much worked ’round the clock without needing to be compensated for the extra time, I loved the job so much.
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Jay Colton: A Celebration Of Life Planned
Saturday, November 6, at The Bath House Studios in New York City
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Longtime photographer Biever helped shape Packers legends – JSOnline
Longtime photographer Biever helped shape Packers legends
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.
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Obituary for Duane William Hopp :: Madison.com
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.
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Jay Colton Dies In Brazil At Photo Workshop
“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.
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Two Mexican photographers shot in Juárez; one killed – Committee to Protect Journalists
Two Mexican photographers shot in Juárez; one killed
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
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Corinne Day: raw genius | Art and design | The Guardian
Corinne Day: raw genius
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
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Corinne Day, star of British fashion photography, dies – British Journal of Photography
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
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Obituaries: Frederick Keesing, retired photo editor for the Courier-News | NJ.com
Obituaries: Frederick Keesing, retired photo editor for the Courier-News
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,…
via nj: http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2010/08/obituaries_frederick_keesing_r.html
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.
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Lee Lockwood Dies at 78 – Captured Life Under Communism
Lee Lockwood Dies at 78; Captured Life Under Communism
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.
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Bill Hudson, 77, a Photojournalist During the Civil Rights Era
Bill Hudson, a Photojournalist During the Civil Rights Era, Dies at 77
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.
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Obituary: Joe Deal, New Topographics Photographer, 62 – PDN Pulse
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
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The man who taught the world to photograph – British Journal of Photography
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
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Fabio Polenghi Photographer Shot, Killed in Thailand | Newsolio
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
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NorthJersey.com: Al Paglione, self-taught, award-winning Record photographer, dies
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