From SuperTouch:
It is truly with a heavy heart that we must break the news that one of Supertouch’s dear friends, photographer SHAWN MORTENSEN, passed away last nite. A kinetic force of optimism and seemingly limitless positive energy, Shawn’s hearty career as a photojournalist and artist took him around the world several times over, unselfishly spreading his endless supply of good vibes as he went.
From Obituary: Peter Goldfield | The Guardian:
Peter Goldfield, who has died of heart failure aged 63, was the godfather of independent photography in Britain, where he and his great friend Paul Hill started the idea of photography workshops.
And she talked some about walking around the streets of New York and how she could capture those moments unnoticed.
“I had attached to my camera — I had a little device that fit on the Leica camera that they called a winkelsucher, which meant that you could look one way and take the picture the other,” she said. “You could turn your camera sideways.”
Ms. Levitt captured instances of a cinematic and delightfully guileless form of street choreography that held at its heart, as William Butler Yeats put it, “the ceremony of innocence.” A man handles garbage-can lids like an exuberant child imitating a master juggler. Even an inanimate object — a broken record — appears to skip and dance on an empty street as a child might, observed by a group of women’s dresses in a shop window.
The critic Adam Gopnik, writing in The New Yorker in 2001, described Ms. Levitt as ”the supreme poet-photographer of the streets and people of New York.”
Pirkle Jones, whose images of migrant farm workers, threatened California towns and valleys and the Black Panthers at the peak of their power made him one of the most admired photographers of his generation, died on March 15 in San Rafael, Calif. He was 95 and lived in Mill Valley, Calif.
Harry Hammond, who has died at the age of 88, was the first great photographer of British rock’n’roll, chronicling the first decade of that music, up to and including the emergence of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
To his friends and family, Richard LaVon Griffiths was a loving, hard-working truckdriver from Beaver.
To the Sundance Film Festival audiences who saw him in Salt Lake City filmmaker Trent Harris’ “Beaver Trilogy,” Griffiths was an acting talent with a personality so eccentric, honest and charming, he became a cult-film figure.
Griffiths, also known as “The Beaver Kid” and “Groovin’ Gary,” passed away Feb. 2 at Salt Lake City’s Intermountain Medical Center. He was 50 years old.
Bill Winfrey, who shot a famous photo of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 for the Dallas Morning News, died January 15 at age 75
Sandy Colton achieved mastery as a photojournalist. He achieved this by working as a photographer, an editor, a champion for the Eddie Adams Workshop, a father of two great photojournalists/editors, a husband, a friend and mentor to many others. Through all this he came to photograph without photographing and to understand the importance of giving back to the community.
Misty Spurgeon, 26, a photographer for the Northwest Signal newspaper of Napoleon, Ohio, was killed Saturday night in a car accident.
Photographer William Claxton, whose revealing portraits of jazz musicians defined the look of the 1960s West Coast jazz scene, died Saturday, October 11. He was 80.
Marianne Thomas, former photo editor at The San Francisco Chronicle, died Sept. 20 at age 57, the newspaper reports. She was The Chronicle’s photo editor from 1992 to 2002.
Roughly 700 members of the photo community gathered in New York on Sept. 10 to celebrate the life of photojournalist Cornell Capa and the institution he founded, the International Center of Photography. Capa died on May 23 at the age of 90 after battling Parkinson’s disease for many years.
Photojournalist Françoise Demulder, who covered the Vietnam war and in 1977 became the first woman to win the World Press Photo award, has died
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Photographer Klimchuk and journalist Grigol Chikhladze died after their vehicle came under attack by Georgian forces at a roadblock Monday, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Klimchuk was the head of the Georgian photo agency Caucasus Images, according to the agency’s Web site. Chikhladze was working as a reporter for Russian Newsweek, according to friend and fellow journalist Timo Vogt.
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Alexander Klimchuk has become the first photographer to die in the war in South Ossetia. He was 27.
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Solzhenitsyn’s unflinching accounts of torment and survival in the Soviet Union’s slave labor camps riveted his countrymen, whose secret history he exposed. They earned him 20 years of bitter exile, but international renown.
And they inspired millions, perhaps, with the knowledge that one person’s courage and integrity could, in the end, defeat the totalitarian machinery of an empire.
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