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.
Category: Obituaries
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Obituary: Harry Hammond | Art and design | The Guardian
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Utah's 'Beaver Kid' dies
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. -
PDNPulse: Former Dallas Morning News Photographer Bill Winfrey Dies
Bill Winfrey, who shot a famous photo of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963 for the Dallas Morning News, died January 15 at age 75
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In Memoriam: William J. 'Sandy' Colton
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.
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PDNPulse: Photographer for Local Ohio Newspaper Killed in Car Crash
Misty Spurgeon, 26, a photographer for the Northwest Signal newspaper of Napoleon, Ohio, was killed Saturday night in a car accident.
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William Claxton, Photographer of Jazz, Dies At Age 80
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.
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PDNPulse: Former San Francisco Chronicle Photo Editor Dies
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.
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Cornell Capa's Contribution to Photography Celebrated at Memorial Service
© PETR TAUSKRoughly 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.
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PDNPulse: Photographer Francoise Demulder Dies
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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Reports: At Least Four Journalists Dead in Georgia Fighting
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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Editorial Photographers UK | Photographer killed in South Ossetia
Alexander Klimchuk has become the first photographer to die in the war in South Ossetia. He was 27.
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Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89 – NYTimes.com
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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Times of London Photojournalist Dies in Zimbabwe
Richard Mills, a contract photographer for The Times of London who followed British troops to the front lines in Afghanistan, watched fighters train in Somalia, and documented suffering children in Zimbabwe, was found dead July 14.
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Sarah Becking, 1972-2008
This post has been slow in coming, because I don’t know what to say.
Sarah Becking, one of the nicest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with, died on July 7th. She was a photographer in Columbia, and was working for the Sports Info department
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Who Murdered Trent Keegan?
Whoever beat Trent Keegan to death probably wanted his computer. But why would robbers leave money in his pockets?
Questions like this trouble the friends and family of Keegan, 33, a New Zealand photojournalist who was murdered while working in Nairobi, Kenya last month.
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Documentary Photographer John Ranard Dies – PDN Pulse
Documentary photographer John Ranard has died of liver cancer at the age of 56. Ranard covered topics including post-Soviet Russia, his own ailments and New York’s ethnic communities. He received first place in the 55th annual Pictures of the Year International contest for his work documenting the potential of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in post-Soviet Russia.
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The search for Sean Flynn continues: mensvogue.com
The first time my father told me about Sean Flynn’s disappearance, I felt as if a spider had walked down my spine. “Just gone?” I said, looking down at a picture that was taken of Sean hours before he vanished into the Cambodian countryside in April 1970 — a heart-stoppingly handsome young man on a motorcycle with thick sideburns and a battered Nikon around his neck. “Yeah,” my father said in a papery voice that made him suddenly sound much older. “Just gone.”
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