John Dominis, who photographed sports, politics, celebrities and culture as a staff photographer at LIFE from the 1950s to the 1970s, died December 30 at his home in New York City, Life.time.com reports. He had recently undergone heart surgery, according
John Dominis, who photographed sports, politics, celebrities and culture as a staff photographer at LIFE from the 1950s to the 1970s, died December 30 at his home in New York City, Life.time.com reports. He had recently undergone heart surgery, according to a website set up by his companion, Evelyn Floret.
I’d also seen samples of his work from a dozen stories, as varied as a LIFE photographer’s world could be, including one of the first sets of pictures of the ‘Great Cats of Africa.’ It was another time altogether from the world we know today, and so I was all the more pleased to be able to taste a great cappuccino made in the cozy kitchen of John Dominis. I’d known of John for a long time, arriving as I did at the end of the LIFE weekly, but it wasn’t until he became the picture editor of People in the ’70s that I really got to know him.
