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Arts > Photo > USA > Matt Herron 1931-2020
Mr. Herron, in an undated photographed taken by his wife, had behind-the-scenes access to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Photograph: Jeannine Herro
Matt Herron, Whose Camera Chronicled a Movement, Dies at 89 As a magazine photojournalist, he immersed himself in the South as a witness to civil rights marches and clashes. He was killed when the glider he was piloting crashed. NYT Published Aug. 11, 2020 Updated Aug. 13, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/
An undated picture of Herron fleeing a policeman.
Photograph: Bob Fitch/Stanfor
Matt Herron, chronicler of the US civil rights movement – in pictures The photographer, who covered protesters and volunteers across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award. Images courtesy of Take Stock/Topfoto G Fri 21 Aug 2020 11.42 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/21/
Young men and boys in their Sunday best outside a church in Valley View, Mississippi, in the summer of 1964.
Photographer: Matt Herron
Matt Herron, chronicler of the US civil rights movement – in pictures The photographer, who covered protesters and volunteers across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award. Images courtesy of Take Stock/Topfoto G Fri 21 Aug 2020 11.42 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/21/
A Mississippi highway patrolman, Hughie Kohler, wrestles with five-year-old Anthony Quin on 17 June 1965, grabbing his small US flag before arresting him and his mother.
They had wanted to protest against the election of congressmen from districts where black people were not allowed to vote.
Photographer: Matt Herron
Matt Herron, chronicler of the US civil rights movement – in pictures The photographer, who covered protesters and volunteers across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award. Images courtesy of Take Stock/Topfoto G Fri 21 Aug 2020 11.42 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/21/
Martin Luther King Jr leads singing marchers towards Montgomery, Alabama, on 21 March 1965.
then the chairman of the SNCC, is on the right.
Photographer: Matt Herron
Matt Herron, chronicler of the US civil rights movement – in pictures The photographer, who covered protesters and volunteers across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award. Images courtesy of Take Stock/Topfoto G Fri 21 Aug 2020 11.42 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/21/
Bobby Simmons, who became known for this photo, takes part in the Selma to Montgomery march on 21 March 1965.
Photographer: Matt Herron
Matt Herron, chronicler of the US civil rights movement – in pictures The photographer, who covered protesters and volunteers across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award. Images courtesy of Take Stock/Topfoto G Fri 21 Aug 2020 11.42 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/21/
A protester at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on 28 August 1963.
Photographer: Matt Herron
Matt Herron, chronicler of the US civil rights movement – in pictures The photographer, who covered protesters and volunteers across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award. Images courtesy of Take Stock/Topfoto G Fri 21 Aug 2020 11.42 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/21/
Matt Herron 1931-2020
As a magazine photojournalist, he immersed himself in the South as a witness to civil rights marches and clashes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/aug/21/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/
https://www.kcur.org/show/up-to-date/2014-07-03/
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