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.
Category: Obituaries
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Life Magazine Photographer Myron H. Davis, 90
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dispatches / In memory of A.K. Kimoto
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.
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Remembering Namir Noor-Eldeen – Lens
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
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The Online Photographer: Namir Noor-Eldeen, 1984-2007
Namir Noor-Eldeen, 1984-2007
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.”
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Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93 – NYTimes.com
Peter Gowland, Pinup Photographer and Author, Dies at 93
Mr. Gowland used a camera, sunshine and imagination to portray ravishing women at a time when the pinup girl was a nearly ubiquitous fixture of American life.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/arts/design/01gowland.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Peter Gowland, who used camera, sunshine and imagination to portray ravishing women at a time when the pinup girl was a nearly ubiquitous fixture of American life, died on March 17 in Los Angeles. He was 93.
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The Online Photographer: Memories of Marshall
Memories of Marshall
Tom Zimberoff and Jim Marshall By Tom Zimberoff I had to buy onions today. I just couldn’t bring myself to write about Jim Marshall, I suppose, until something that ordinary and evocative opened a sluice of memories and tears. Some…
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When I stopped shooting years ago, I gave Marshall some bricks of film I had in my fridge. He loved Tri-X. But the last time I saw him, at my own recent exhibition opening, he proudly showed me the new digital Leica M9, engraved with the Jim Marshall moniker, bestowed on him by the German factory moguls. I would like to see the pics he made that night.
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Remains found in Cambodia thought to be of Errol Flynn's son – guardian.co.uk
Remains found in Cambodia thought to be of Errol Flynn’s son
Photographer Sean Flynn, who went went missing in 1970, believed to have been captured and killed in Cambodian war
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Photographer Sean Flynn, who went went missing in 1970, believed to have been captured and killed in Cambodian war
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Marshall took iconic photos of musicians; From Johnny Cash to Janis Joplin, he captured many greats
During this period he got his famous photo of Joplin backstage, slouched on a couch with a bottle of Southern Comfort cradled in her hands.
“Some people said I shouldn’t have published that picture of her lying back, with the bottle in her hand, but I’ll defend it to the death,” he once said. “People said her legs looked too fat. But Janis said, ‘Hey, that’s a great shot because it’s how it is sometimes. Lousy.’”
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Marty Lederhandler Dies; At D-Day and 9/11 – Lens
Marty Lederhandler of The Associated Press — “I never want to stop saying that,” he declared on his retirement — was there on June 6, 1944, and on Sept. 11, 2001, and on a remarkable number of occasions in between. (Including Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller’s honeymoon flight to Venezuela.)
Link: Marty Lederhandler Dies; At D-Day and 9/11 – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com
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Marty Lederhandler, AP lensman for 66 years, dies – The Olympian
Marty Lederhandler, an Associated Press photographer who captured on film every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton, covered the D-Day landing in 1944 and climaxed a 66-year career with an iconic shot of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, has died. He was 92.
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Jim Marshall was a bad ass – Mangin Photography Archive
I have fought hard to own all or most of my images that I have produced over the past 20 plus years. The older I get the more and more I grow to appreciate Marshall and what he stood for. This man fought hard for everything he had, and no way in Hell was he ever going to let anyone fuck with him or his pictures.
Link: Jim Marshall was a bad ass :: Mangin Photography Archive
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Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74 – NYTimes.com
Jim Marshall, Rock ’n’ Roll Photographer, Dies at 74
Mr. Marshall was a photographer whose images of Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling Stones and others in the 1960s and ’70s helped define their subjects as well as rock ’n’ roll photography itself.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25marshall.html?partner=TOPIXNEWS&ei=5099
Annie Leibovitz once called him “the rock ’n’ roll photographer.”
With an imposing figure and gruff, forceful personality, Mr. Marshall was something of a rock star himself, and musicians respected him as much for his pictures as for his dedication to getting them. Yet he saw his work largely in photojournalistic terms, capturing a natural scene instead of staging an artificial one.
“When I’m photographing people, I don’t like to give any direction,” he wrote in the introduction to his 1997 retrospective book, “Not Fade Away.” “There are no hair people fussing around, no make-up artists. I’m like a reporter, only with a camera; I react to my subject in their environment, and, if it’s going well, I get so immersed in it that I become one with the camera.”
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The Online Photographer: Artists Ain't Saints: Jim Marshall, 1936-2010
Artists Ain’t Saints: Jim Marshall, 1936-2010
By Ctein I’m feeling mildly discombobulated. I just found out an hour ago that Jim Marshall died in his sleep last night (Tuesday night) in his hotel room in New York City; he was there for another show opening and…
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Practically the first thing Jim told me was to make a print for myself of anything I printed for him and he’d sign it. For all I know, my collection of Jim Marshall prints is worth more than everything he paid me over the last decade. He could alternate between being ridiculously tightfisted and incredibly generous. Mess with his intellectual property rights and he would go for your throat, literally and legally. Lots of people tried to rip him off, sometimes people who should know better like major magazines and television networks, sometimes just people who thought they could get away with putting a photograph of his on a T-shirt. Jim made a lot of money off of the many people who tried to rip him off. But ask Jim for something, almost anything, and if he didn’t think you were out to rip him off, he’d say yes.
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Jim Marshall RIP – wtj
Jackanory Films presents a Jim Marshall show and tell from andrew hetherington on Vimeo.
I recorded his show and tell on my point and shoot and have reposted the video in its entirety below. If you havent seen it or heard Jim speak before its well worth a look see. The stories and indeed his life and the way he lead it are priceless.
Link: Jim Marshall RIP – wtj
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Jim Marshall, Legendary Rock Photographer, Passes Away at 74
Marshall summed up his rapport with rock stars best when talking about Joplin: “You could just call her at home and be like, ‘We have to take some pictures,’ and she’d say, ‘OK! Come over!’ She trusted me and knew I had her best interests at heart. I only wanted to make her look good.”
Link: Jim Marshall, Legendary Rock Photographer, Passes Away at 74 : Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
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Jim’s Gone…. | Joe McNally's Blog
Jim’s Gone….
Jim Marshall died today. That name might not mean much to lots of folks, even photographic folks, but we are all the poorer for his passing. He was an iconic shooter of the rock and
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Has anyone ever shot a memorable picture of, for instance, Coldplay? From what I hear from a serious distance, this is a band, like many, who has left the term “control freak” in the rear view mirror. Absolute control of image, and images. I guess that’s understandable. It’s a business. Good music, to be sure. Sanitized, moderated imagery. Will we look in 20 years? Will that retouched, altered image hit a nerve?
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Rock and Roll Photographer Jim Marshall Has Died, Age 74
Gallery owner David Fahey, who co-authored Not Fade Away with Marshall, says, “Jim had an intuitive way of getting to the heart and soul of his subjects. He was there at a special time for our generation. He recorded the best people and took the best pictures of them.”
Link: Rock and Roll Photographer Jim Marshall Has Died, Age 74
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Rock photographer Jim Marshall dies at 74
“Jim’s work is legendary,” he said. “As far as music photographers, he is the godfather.”
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Jim Marshall, Photographer of Rock Stars, Dies – ArtsBeat Blog – NYTimes.com
Jim Marshall, 74, Photographer of Rock Stars, Dies
A photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians.
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Jim Marshall, a photographer who took some of the most famous images of rock and pop musicians, including Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar aflame at the Monterey International Pop Festival and Johnny Cash at San Quentin prison, died on Tuesday night in a hotel in New York. He was 74.