Link: stjoenews.net | Lawhon knew how to capture a moment:
Ival Lawhon Jr., a dogged photographer who captured three decades of fires, floods and poignant personal moments, died Saturday night. He was 61.
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Category: Obituaries
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Ival Lawhon knew how to capture a moment
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Bobby Model, Prominent Adventure Photographer, Dies at 36
Link: Bobby Model, Prominent Adventure Photographer, Dies at 36 – NYTimes.com:Mr. Model’s work appeared in National Geographic, Outside, The New York Times and other publications. His assignments took him from the rivers of Burundi, where he searched for a fabled man-eating crocodile, to the Nameless Tower of northern Pakistan, one of the world’s largest granite walls.
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Retired White House Photographer Killed In Carolina Car Crash
Link: Retired White House Photographer Killed In Carolina Car Crash – NPPA:Starting in 1967, and for the next 19 years, Jack Kightlinger photographed Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, before retiring during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Those who knew Kightlinger said that he was proud of a large framed print of a picture of President Reagan using Kightlinger’s own camera to take a picture of the photographer on his last day of work at the White House in 1985.
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French photographer Willy Ronis dies at age 99
Link: French photographer Willy Ronis dies at age 99 – lens culture photography weblog:French photographer Willy Ronis died today in Paris, apparently lively and active until the end. His work captured the romance of French culture of the mid-20th century with classic, poetic beauty.
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John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog
Link: John Burns Discusses Sultan Munadi – At War Blog – NYTimes.com:Sultan Munadi is dead, and a British paratrooper whose name we may never know. There may also have been Afghan casualties, perhaps Taliban, perhaps not; that we also don’t know yet, for sure. But from where I am writing this, on a sunny autumn afternoon in rural England, the deaths of Sultan and the British commando seem like a grim black cloud darkening the landscape – a harbinger, perhaps, for the increasingly grim news that seems to await us all from a war that seems to be worsening by the day, and heading for worse yet unless our political and military leaders can find a way to turn the situation around.
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Photojournalism Legend Angus W. "Mac" McDougall, 92
Photojournalism Legend Angus W. “Mac” McDougall, 92:
McDougall set standards of excellence in photography, photography editing, and photojournalism education. As a Milwaukee Journal photographer, he was an innovator in the use of high-speed strobe technology and in using multiple pictures to tell stories. He tested his theories of visual communication and formed many of his principles of picture editing as associate editor of International Harvester World, a Chicago-based corporate magazine.
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Marcey Jacobson, Photographer of Mexican Indians, Dies at 97
Marcey Jacobson, Photographer of Mexican Indians, Dies at 97 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com:
Marcey Jacobson, a self-taught photographer from New York City who spent decades in the southern Mexican highlands documenting the lives of the indigenous Indian peoples, died on July 26 in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, in the state of Chiapas. She was 97.
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Bill Jay | Photographer and writer
Bill Jay | Photographer and writer | The Guardian:
Bill Jay, who has died aged 68, started out as a photographer but made his reputation as a writer on and advocate of photography. He was the first editor, in 1968, of the immensely influential magazine Creative Camera and then founder, in 1970, of Album photo-magazine (which ran for all of 12 issues). He went on to stimulate interest and debate through his work as a curator, magazine and picture editor, lecturer and mentor and, above all, through writing on photography.
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Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel
Art – Images of a Camera-Toting Artist Turn a Gallery Into a Chapel – NYTimes.com:
The memorial exhibition for the New York artist Dash Snow, who died last week of a drug overdose at 27, is a casual, personal thing with no formal title and a simple organizing principle: people who knew Mr. Snow were invited to bring things in to remember him by.
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Julius Shulman, Photographer of Modernist California Architecture, Dies at 98
Julius Shulman, Photographer of Modernist California Architecture, Dies at 98 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com:
Over a career of more than half a century, Mr. Shulman almost always used black-and-white film, the better to reduce his subjects to their geometric essentials. But he was also able to make the hard glass and steel surfaces of postwar Modernist architecture appear comfortable and inviting.
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San Jose Mercury News Photographer Len Vaughn-Lahman Dies
PDNPulse: San Jose Mercury News Photographer Len Vaughn-Lahman Dies:
“He was a true raconteur; he had an easy way with people and he was comfortable in any circumstance, whether it was covering plane crashes or politicians or even studio photo sessions,” said former Mercury News Executive Editor David Yarnold, quoted in the Mercury News.
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Subway Graffiti Artist Iz the Wiz, Michael Martin, Dies at 50
Subway Graffiti Artist Iz the Wiz, Michael Martin, Dies at 50 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com:
“Look at any movie shot on location in New York from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, and you will very likely see an Iz the Wiz tag,” Mr. Walker said. “He told me once that in 1982 he went out every night and did at least a hundred throw-ups” — letters filled in quickly with a thin layer of color. “People can’t fathom it.”