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.
Category: Obituaries
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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.”
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Behind the Picture of Farrah Fawcett That Made her an Icon
TIME:
Bruce McBroom, a photographer, snapped the image that made Farrah Fawcett an icon. He tells TIME how an innocuous photo shoot — in which Fawcett posed at her Hollywood home in a red swimsuit — resulted in the 1976 poster that wound up plastered on millions of bedroom walls.
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Paul Marchand 1962 – 2009
Like many French journalists and photographers Paul Marchand drove a small car – often liberated from a car hire company – at a time when many English speaking journalists were choosing armoured cars. As protection he had a handwritten sign on his rear window saying “Don’t shoot me – I am invincible”. Well, he was invincible, until he was – perhaps inevitably – shot. Shot in the arm by a 50 calibre machine gun at Sarajevo airport. He lost a few inches of arm but his enthusiasm remained undeterred and his behaviour was unchanged.
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Pioneering Mozambique Photojournalist Dies
Photojournalist Ricardo Rangel, an influential Mozambican photographer whose work was part of several international exhibitions in recent years, died Thursday at age 85, according to press reports.
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Obituary: Lucien Aigner
The seminal German picture magazines of the early Thirties and the invention of a small camera, the Leica, spawned a select group of key photographers: Erich Salomon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Lucien Aigner is of that vintage, but is one of the least known “pioneers of photojournalism”.
It was the acknowledged “god- father of photojournalism”, Stefan Lorant, who commented of his fellow countryman: “What sets him apart from other ‘picture takers’ is his fervent dedication to his work. He belongs to a minuscule band of camera artists who do not press the button in a mad rush but ponder and think before they let the shutter go.”
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Hugh Van Es: R.I. in f*****g P.
Kees Metselaar and Vaudine England – The Digital Journalist:
When we heard that our best friend, Hugh van Es, had gone to hospital after suffering a huge cerebral hemorrhage, we were in Amsterdam – where Hugh had first worked as a news photographer back in 1959. We promptly went to one of his favorite ‘brown cafés’ to think through what it all meant.
We were not alone.
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PDNPulse: New York Photographer and Author Norman Snyder Dies
PDNPulse: New York Photographer and Author Norman Snyder Dies says:
Norman Snyder, a photographer who wrote The Photography Catalog, a 1976 book of equipment and advice, died May 28. He was 72 and lived in Manhattan.
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Benjamen Chinn dies at 87; photographer documented San Francisco's Chinatown
Los Angeles Times says:
Chinn was among the very few Chinese Americans to capture street scenes in the famous neighborhood. His most productive years were from 1947 to 1949.
Via PDNPulse
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Hugh Van Es, Photojournalist Who Covered Vietnam, Dies at 67
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The Online Photographer: A Wise, Iconoclastic Voice
The Online Photographer says:
It is a fine day in May, and the trees are leafing out, showing the bright tender green I associate with newness, and the sun is shining, and the news from Costa Rica is that Bill Jay has died in his sleep.
viaKen Jarecke
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PDNPulse: Hugh Van Es, Fall of Saigon Photographer, Dies at 67
PDNPulse says:
Dutch photojournalist Hubert Van Es, best known for a photo of a rooftop helicopter evacuation during the fall of Saigon in 1975, died Friday morning in Hong Kong.
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Blood Is Not Thicker Than Water: On The Death Of My Friend Raza Khan
The Spinning Head says:
Raza was my rock. He was my eyes and ears on the dangerous Pakistani frontier with Afghanistan. He was the only person in Pakistan I trusted with my life and I repeatedly placed it in his hands. He never ever let me down.
He was officially a fixer, but Raza Khan was far, far more than that.
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We’ve Lost One Of Our Own :: Frank Mullen
Zack Arias says:
Y’all, we’ve lost one of our own this week.
Local Atlanta music photographer, Frank Mullen, lost his battle with cancer this week.
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Paul Haven R.I.P.
Glen E. Friedman says:
Who was Paul Haven? He was the art director at SkateBoarder magazine during it’s entire run in the 70’s, right through the last issue of Action Nowmagazine in the early 80’s.
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Saddened By The Death of Ian Talty
From Wooster Collective:
We’re extremely saddened to learn this morning of the death of Ian Talty, a photographer known for shooting amazing photographs of graffiti in and around St. Paul, Minnesota.
