Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington were killed yesterday in Misrata, Libya. I didn’t know Tim. I respected his work and how he went about creating it. I did know Chris. He was a friend and a man I deeply admired.
Category: Obituaries
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Anton Hammerl in Memoriam
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GlobalPost’s James Foley, one of the reporters in the incident, said he called out amid the barrages asking if Hammerl was ok. The answer was “No” and then there was silence.
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Eve Arnold obituary
Eve Arnold obituary
Celebrated Magnum photographer who documented ‘the poor, the old and the underdog’, as well as the stars
via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold
Celebrated Magnum photographer who documented ‘the poor, the old and the underdog’, as well as the stars
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Horst Faas, War Photographer, Is Dead at 79
Parting Glance: Horst Faas
Horst Faas, a prizewinning combat photographer with The Associated Press for nearly a half-century, died on Thursday. He was 79.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/a-parting-glance-horst-faas/?pagewanted=all
Mr. Faas was a brilliant planner, able to score journalistic scoops by anticipating “not just what happens next, but what happens after that,” as one colleague put it.
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In Memoriam: Photographers Who Died in 2012
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In his series of carefully composed black-and-white images that make up “La Famille,” the French photographer Alain Laboile has captured a sense of youthful freedom through the exploits of his six children.
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In Memoriam: Wayne Miller (1918 – 2013)
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To photograph mankind and explain man to man — that was how legendary photographer Wayne Miller described his decades-long drive to document the myriad subjects gracing his work. Miller passed away Wednesday at the age of 94 at his home in California.
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Twenty Years After Apartheid
Twenty Years After Apartheid
Joao Silva came of age as a photographer as his native South Africa was navigating a treacherous path to democracy. Twenty years later, he reflects on what has — and has not — changed.
via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/twenty-years-after-apartheid/
In a sprawling South African township stands a tall slab of polished stone etched with names of people killed in the political violence preceding the country’s first democratic elections. It is dedicated to those from Tokoza, where almost 1,000 people died violently some 20 years ago, and sits on Khumalo Street, the very road where many died.
Lost among the scores of the memorialized are my friends Ken Oosterbroek and Abdul Shariff.
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Michael Schmidt 1945-2014 | Conscientious Photography Magazine
Michael Schmidt 1945-2014
via Conscientious Photography Magazine: https://cphmag.com/michael-schmidt-1945-2014/
I cannot think of any other contemporary German photographer who has dealt with the country he was born into as deeply as Schmidt
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René Burri: The Keen-eyed Master « The Leica Camera
The diversity offered by his outstanding work will be a constant source of delightful new discoveries. Looking back, Burri’s life was dedicated to photography – a life that has been eventful, successful, and above all, rich in good fortune. As he has often said, “photography for me has always been about good fortune.”