Iowan John Gaps photographed wars, Olympics and other big news stories around the world before joining the photo staff at the Des Moines Register.
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“He saw a lot for one guy. And he carried a lot of that pain with him until the end,” Ethan Gaps said.
Most well-known for his 1956 book “Life is Good & Good for You in New York.”
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American-born French photographer William Klein has passed away at the age of 96 in his home in Paris. Klein is considered one of the most influential and “groundbreaking” photographers thanks to his 1956 photo book Life is Good & Good for You in New York.
Fearless and free-spirited, he pushed the boundaries of life and photography, recording intimate images of combat that helped shift the course of the war.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/world/asia/tim-page-dead.html
Fearless and free-spirited, he pushed the boundaries of life and photography, recording intimate images of combat that helped shift the course of the war.
RIP
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Grobet began to view the culture and world of Mexican Professional Wrestling through her camera lens in the 1980s. Known as Lucha Libre Mexicana, Mexican professional wrestling had been a favorite sport in Mexico, and one which Grobet had adored since a young child.
Steve Gonzales, a devoted family man and veteran Houston Chronicle photojournalist…
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Steve Gonzales, a devoted family man and veteran Houston Chronicle photojournalist beloved for his unwavering kindness, faith and optimism, died Saturday after a long, valiant battle with cancer. He was 60.
Letizia Battaglia was an impassioned activist and fearless documentarian who lived by the heart and the camera.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/the-sicilian-photographer-who-fought-the-mafia/
An impassioned activist and fearless documentarian, Letizia Battaglia lived by the heart and the camera.
The photographer’s work provides a stark illustration of the hold that celebrity has on our culture.
via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/ron-galellas-relentless-gaze
“My idea of a good picture is one that’s in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous,” the artist Andy Warhol wrote, in 1979. “It’s being in the right place at the wrong time. That’s why my favorite photographer is Ron Galella.”
He personified the paparazzi — brazen and relentless in chasing the famous, particularly Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. But his pictures also came to be admired.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/02/business/media/ron-galella-dead.html
Mr. Galella was called a creep, a stalker and worse when he began shooting pictures of celebrities in the 1960s, before mass circulation magazines like People and Us made the presence of paparazzi like him ubiquitous — and a full generation before phone cameras and websites like TMZ made celebrity stalking the pastime of legions.
Anti-mafia journalist from Palermo scoured Sicilian alleyways in 1970s and 1980s to expose brutal violence
via the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/letizia-battaglia-photojournalist-who-documented-mafia-crimes-dies-aged-87
Armed only with her Leica camera and mounted on a Vespa, Battaglia scoured the alleyways of Palermo during the 1970s and 1980s photographing the victims of mafia murders and the internal wars between rival clans. As a result she received several death threats.
She was an artist who was studying anthropology when she became an activist in the civil rights movement and a rare woman to document Black life in photos.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/arts/doris-derby-dead.html
“I had a quest to show what the average person was doing,” she told the Southern Oral History Program in 2011, part of a collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. “I had a quest to show our culture in total, not just a little bit, or negative stereotypes.”
Two photographers share how Michele McNally, who shepherded a new age of photography at The New York Times, touched their lives and work.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/05/insider/lessons-learned-from-michele-mcnally.html
She wanted to teach me photo editing to better inform my photography. For months, we met at 7 a.m. to look through 75 years of Fortune magazine photography at what is now called the Life Picture Collection. She’d explain to me her vision of a successful frame, what she looked for in a photographic composition and why some images had become icons. We’d sift through the hundreds of folders each morning before the workday began.
Shooting for Time magazine and United Press International, he documented presidents, the Vietnam War and more.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/business/media/dirck-halstead-dead.html
Shooting for Time magazine and United Press International, he documented presidents, the Vietnam War and more.
She traveled the world, but she was best known for the photographs she took in Uganda, which brought pathos and humanity to charged subject matter.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/business/media/sumy-sadurni-dead.html
She traveled the world, but she was best known for the photographs she took in Uganda, which brought pathos and humanity to charged subject matter.
He sought to depict his community “from the inside out” and to challenge negative images of Puerto Ricans in New York.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/arts/hiram-maristany-dead.html
He sought to depict his community “from the inside out” and to challenge negative images of Puerto Ricans in New York.
Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.
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Michele McNally, the first photography director of The New York Times who brought photojournalism to new heights, died on February 18 from complications of pneumonia in a hospital in Yonkers, NY. She was 66.
The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/business/media/michele-mcnally-dead.html
The paper won six Pulitzer Prizes for photography during her tenure as its director of photography and a trailblazing member of the newsroom’s top management.
He documented the civil rights movement and subjects as diverse as narcotics users, migrant workers and movie stars, seeking to capture their emotional heart.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/arts/steve-schapiro-dead.html
Steve Schapiro, a photojournalist and social documentarian who bore witness to some of the nation’s most significant political and cultural moments and movements, starting in the 1960s with the historic struggle for racial equality across the Jim Crow South, died on Jan. 15 at his home in Chicago. He was 87.
Margarito Martínez Esquivel, a Tijuana photojournalist who covered police and security issues, was killed Monday
via San Diego Union-Tribune: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/story/2022-01-17/photojournalist-death-tijuana
Martínez, 49, was beloved by colleagues and known as fearless. Last year, he documented a shootout between two groups, putting his own safety at risk. Journalist chat groups for Baja California were flooded with messages of grief and support on Monday afternoon.
Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.
Steve Schapiro, whose prize-winning photographs defined 20th century American life, died peacefully in his Chicago home on Saturday, January 15, from pancreatic cancer. He was 87.
Parisian and New York street scenes, world events coverage, press and fashion photos, advertisements, portraits of artists: hardly a discipline seems to have eluded Sabine Weiss’s benevolent lens. The last representative of French humanist photography, wh
Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/sabine-weiss-figure-of-humanist-photography-dies-at-97-en
Parisian and New York street scenes, world events coverage, press and fashion photos, advertisements, portraits of artists: hardly a discipline seems to have eluded Sabine Weiss’s benevolent lens. The last representative of French humanist photography, whose work was exhibited at the Rencontres d’Arles last summer, died today at the age of 97. Blind republishes the profile that was dedicated to her on this occasion.