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Masked For Men'S Work

Photographer Dennis Stock

holding camera to his face so that the lens

looks like his right eye & viewfinder his left.

 

Location: US

 

Date taken: June 1951

 

Photograph: Andreas Feininger

 

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/a2858d90ba3af2c0.html - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David S. Johnson    USA    1926-2024

 

 

 

 

"Boy and Lincoln, 1963"

 

Photograph: David Johnson

 

The David Johnson Photograph Archive,

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

 

Photographer David Johnson,

who chronicled San Francisco's Black culture, dies at 97

NPR

MARCH 17, 2024    5:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/
1239005042/photographer-david-johnson-san-francisco-black-culture-dead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Johnson

generally wasn't interested

in people posing for his camera.

 

As the photographer

and civil rights activist

put it in a 2017 interview

at the University of California, Berkeley:

"A big smiling photograph?

That wasn't my style."

 

(...)

 

Johnson was the first Black student

of the famous nature photographer

Ansel Adams and became known

as one of the foremost chroniclers

of San Francisco's Black urban culture.

 

(...)

 

Johnson was born in 1926

in Jacksonville, Fla.,

to an impoverished single mother

who handed her baby off

to be raised by a cousin.

 

In a 2013 interview

with San Francisco member station KQED,

Johnson said he got his first camera

by selling magazine subscriptions

door-to-door.

 

"I just started snapping pictures

around the neighborhood.

And I got kind of fascinated with that,"

he said.

 

Johnson was drafted into the U.S. Navy

right out of high school.

 

He was stationed in San Francisco,

falling in love with the city,

and was then sent to the Philippines

for the remainder of World War II.

 

After returning, he wanted

to develop his photography skills

in college.

 

It was 1946,

and budding photographers

were clamoring to get into the program

that master lensman Adams=

had just launched

at the California School of Fine Arts

in San Francisco.

 

Its star-studded faculty included

Minor White, Imogen Cunningham,

Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange.

 

Johnson wanted in.

 

So he sent Adams a letter.

"I wrote to Ansel and said,

'I'm interested in studying photography.

I have the GI Bill. And I would like for you

to evaluate my [application].'

 

Ansel wrote me back and said,

'There are no vacancies in the class,' "

he told KQED.

 

But a student dropped out,

making room for Johnson.

 

He hopped on a segregated train

that took him from Jacksonville

to San Francisco.

 

After living in Adams' house for a while,

he eventually found a low-rent room

in the city's Fillmore District

and started taking lots of photos.

 

(...)

 

And he used his camera

to spark conversations about civil rights.

 

"There's one really iconic photograph

of a woman listening to a speech

and she's got kind of a dubious look on her face,

but in her glasses are reflected the American flag,"

Hult-Lewis said.

 

"There's another incredible photograph

of a young African American boy sitting,

holding an American flag

in the embrace of a sculpture

of Abraham Lincoln."

 

Johnson also often participated

in direct political action.

 

He attended the 1963 March on Washington,

and organized the first Black caucus

at the University of California, San Francisco.

 

"He was part of a group

that successfully sued

the San Francisco Unified School District

to compel them

to more fully desegregate the schools,"

Hult-Lewis said.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/
1239005042/photographer-david-johnson-san-francisco-black-culture-dead

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
David_Johnson_(photographer)

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/17/
1239005042/photographer-david-johnson-san-francisco-black-culture-dead

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Magubane    SA    1932-2024

 

 

 

 

Perhaps his most famous photograph,

Peter Magubane’s 1956 image of a Black maid tending to a white girl

captured the racial divide in apartheid South Africa.

 

Photograph: Peter Magubane

 

Peter Magubane, 91, Who Fought Apartheid With His Camera, Is Dead

He documented the cruelties of white South African rule,

and he was made to pay for it,

enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days

in solitary confinement.

NYT

January 1, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/
world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He documented

the cruelties of white South African rule,

and he was made to pay for it,

enduring beatings and 586 consecutive days

in solitary confinement.

 

(...)

 

Such were the challenges and perils

facing Black photographers

in South Africa’s

apartheid-era segregated townships,

Mr. Magubane liked to say,

that he took to hiding his camera

in hollowed-out bread loaves,

empty milk cartons or even the Bible,

enabling him to shoot pictures

clandestinely.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/
world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Peter_Magubane

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2024/jan/12/
to-fight-with-my-camera-to-kill-apartheid-
peter-magubane-south-african-photographer

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/
world/africa/peter-magubane-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry Fink    USA    1941-2023

 

 

 

 

English Speaking Union, New York, 1975

 

A self-described Marxist,

Fink grew up in a politicised family that scorned the free market,

yet happily enjoyed the trappings of a moneyed life

such as chic automobiles and classy parties

 

Photograph: Larry Fink

 

‘From the counterculture to high society’:

Larry Fink’s career in pictures

Whether shooting civil rights marches or Studio 54 style icons,

the politically conscious photographer – who died last month –

cast a critical eye on the American class system

G

Wed 6 Dec 2023    08.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/dec/06/
from-the-counterculture-to-high-society-larry-finks-career-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

His black-and-white images

captured the chilly anomie

of Manhattan’s haute monde,

the strangeness of Hollywood royalty

and the lively warmth of rural America.

 

(...)

 

kinetic photographer

whose intimate black-and-white

on-the-fly portraits

of rural Pennsylvanians,

Manhattan society figures,

Hollywood royalty,

boxers, musicians,

fashion models and many others

were both social commentary

on class and privilege

and an exuberant document

of the human condition

 

(...)

 

Mr. Fink was a Brooklyn-born lefty

whose early work, in the late 1950s,

chronicled the second-generation Beats

who were his cohort in the East Village,

where he lived for a time,

along with the jazz musicians he adored

(he played the harmonica)

and the protagonists of the civil rights

and antiwar movements.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/
arts/larry-fink-dead.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Larry_Fink_(photographer)

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/dec/06/
from-the-counterculture-to-high-society-larry-finks-career-in-pictures

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/
arts/larry-fink-dead.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/28/
larry-fink-dead-photographer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simpson Kalisher    USA    1926-2023

 

 

 

 

A 1960 photo by Simpson Kalisher

captures a city in motion.

 

“His most distinguishing feature

was his social empathy and imagination,”

the author Lucy Sante said.

 

Photographer: Simpson Kalisher

via Keith de Lellis Gallery

 

Simpson Kalisher, Photographer Who Captured Urban Grit, Dies at 96

He emerged from a largely commercial background

to join the towering figures who defined an art form

— street photography — in the 1950s and ’60s.

NYT

Published July 26, 2023

Updated July 27, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/
arts/simpson-kalisher-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Simpson Kalisher (...)

liberated his lens from slick images

in corporate reports and trade magazines

to emerge as a discerning photojournalist

whose street scenes froze

the panorama of urban American life

in the 1950s and ’60s

 

(...)

 

A Bronx native, Mr. Kalisher

“was one of the last survivors

of that generation of dynamic

New York street photographers

born in the 1920s

and employed at first by the magazines,

a group that included Robert Frank,

Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand,”

Lucy Sante,

who wrote the foreword

to Mr. Kalisher’s book

“The Alienated Photographer” (2011),

said in an email.

 

“His most distinguishing feature

was his social empathy

and imagination.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/
arts/simpson-kalisher-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/
arts/simpson-kalisher-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elise Steiner / Lisl Steiner   Austria, USA    1927-2023

 

flamboyant photojournalist

who was celebrated

for her intimate, emotive images

of history-tilting figures

like Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy

and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

as well as luminaries of music,

stage and sports

(...)

Shooting for publications

including Newsweek,

Time, Life

and National Geographic,

Ms. Steiner was known

for her flamboyant attire,

her trademark explosion

of fiery red hair,

her sassy personality

and her uncanny knack

for connecting with her subjects,

whom she jokingly referred to

as “victims.”

 

(...)

 

Elise Steiner

(“Lisl” was a family nickname

that stuck)

was born on Nov. 19, 1927,

in Vienna,

the only child of Arnold

and Katrina Steiner.

 

Her father was

a sports physical therapist

and soccer referee.

 

Her mother was Jewish,

and the family fled to Buenos Aires

after Germany annexed Austria

in March 1938,

escaping the concentration camps

that claimed many members

of her mother’s family.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/
arts/lisl-steiner-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/18/
arts/lisl-steiner-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jessica May Burstein    USA    1947-2023

 

 photographer

who in extended assignments

captured three quintessentially

New York institutions

— the “Law & Order”

television franchise,

the new Yankee Stadium

as it was being built

and the restaurant and celebrity

hangout Elaine’s —

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/
arts/jessica-burstein-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/
arts/jessica-burstein-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neal Boenzi    USA    1925-2023

 

 

 

 

In 1956,

Mr. Boenzi captured

an employee of the Communist newspaper The Daily Worker

protesting the seizure of its records.

 

Photograph: Neal Boenzi

The New York Times

 

Neal Boenzi, Top New York Times Photographer for Four Decades, Dies at 97

He built a reputation for finding compelling subjects on the street.

“Anyone can take a picture,” he liked to say, “but are you a journalist?”

NYT

April 5, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/
business/media/neal-boenzi-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photographer

who for more than 40 years

at The New York Times

deftly captured aspects of city life

from firefighters fleeing a falling wall

to a man walking a goose,

(...)

Mr. Boenzi’s photographs

usually accompanied

breaking news coverage

and longer articles.

 

But they also included

many so-called day shots:

photographs he took

when he was told to be creative

and find pictures

that brightened readers’ days.

 

“There’s an aspect of Weegee

in his photographs,

that grittiness of New York,

but with a lighter touch, less macabre,”

Fred Ritchin, dean emeritus

of the International Center of Photography,

said in a phone interview, referring

to the celebrated New York City

tabloid photographer

of the 1930s and ’40s.

 

“Maybe even

a New York version of the humanism

that one sees

in the work of French photographers

such as Robert Doisneau

and Cartier-Bresson.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/
business/media/neal-boenzi-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/
business/media/neal-boenzi-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kwame Brathwaite    USA    1938-2023

 

Photographer Kwame Brathwaite

(...)

helped popularize

the "Black is Beautiful"

movement of the 1960s

(...)

 From Nelson Mandela

to Muhammad Ali

and the so-called Grandassa Models,

Brathwaite's work embraced

Black power and beauty.

 

He chronicled events such as

The Motown Revue at the Apollo

in 1963,

 

The Jackson 5's

first trip to Africa in 1974,

and the legendary Foreman-Ali fight,

The Rumble in the Jungle.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/04/
1167908950/kwame-brathwaite-obituary-black-is-beautiful

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/04/
1167908950/kwame-brathwaite-obituary-black-is-beautiful

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marilyn Stafford    USA    1925-2023

 

born Marilyn Jean Gerson

 

With her images of models

on the streets of Paris

and refugees fleeing

the Algerian war of independence,

(she) blazed a trail

for female photographers

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/02/
paris-beirut-delhi-marilyn-staffords-globe-straddling-photography-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/140823/
la-fee-du-sans-logis-marilyn-stafford-photographe-pharamineuse

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/
arts/marilyn-stafford-dead.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/02/
paris-beirut-delhi-marilyn-staffords-globe-straddling-photography-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/nov/05/
the-fashion-photography-of-marilyn-stafford-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2018/nov/04/
pret-a-porter-marliyn-stafford-1960-paris-montmartre

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jan/03/
marilyn-stafford-best-photograph-albert-einstein

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/apr/29/
the-chic-and-the-shabby-paris-in-the-1950s-by-marilyn-stafford

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/apr/29/
marilyn-stafford-photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tony Vaccaro    USA    1922-2022

 

 (born Michelantonio Celestino Onofrio Vaccaro)

 

After carrying a camera

across battlefields,

he became a magazine photographer

known for his images of famous subjects

like Georgia O’Keeffe and Greta Garbo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/
arts/tony-vaccaro-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/30/
arts/tony-vaccaro-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henry Maxwell Grossman    USA    1936-2022

 

photographer who was best known

for his formal portraits of celebrities

and other public figures

— but who also, less famously,

immortalized the Beatles on film

in thousands of unscripted antics

while juggling a side career

as a Metropolitan Opera tenor

and a Broadway bit player —

 

(...)
 

 

Mr. Grossman produced

paradigmatic portraits

of Eleanor Roosevelt,

Richard M. Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor,

Martha Graham,

Leontyne Price, Leonard Bernstein

and Nelson Mandela.

 

He photographed

new Metropolitan Opera productions

for Time magazine

and was the official photographer

for many Broadway shows.

 

His portraits of John F. Kennedy

and Lyndon B. Johnson

were published on the front page

of The New York Times

on Nov. 23, 1963,

accompanying the news

that the young president

had been assassinated in Dallas

and succeeded by his vice president

the day before.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/
arts/henry-grossman-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/
arts/henry-grossman-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Douglas Morley Kirkland    Canada, USA    1934-2022

 

a noted photojournalist

and portraitist

whose subjects included

Marilyn Monroe

wrapped in a silk sheet

and Coco Chanel at work

in her Paris atelier

(...)

For more than 60 years,

Mr. Kirkland was a leading

celebrity photographer,

first for Look and Life magazines

and then as a freelancer

for various magazines,

Hollywood studios

and advertising agencies.

 

Courteous and exuberant

— he was no annoying paparazzo —

Mr. Kirkland was welcomed

into stars’ homes

and hotel rooms

and onto movie sets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/
arts/douglas-kirkland-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/
arts/douglas-kirkland-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eamonn McCabe    UK    1948-2022

 

 

 

 

Football fans at Bradford football club in 1988.

 

Photograph: Eamonn McCabe

The Guardian

 

Eamonn McCabe – a life in pictures

Guardian photographer

and former head of photography Eamonn McCabe

has died at 74.

We look back at his iconic work

G

Mon 3 Oct 2022    18.43 BST

Last modified on Mon 3 Oct 2022    20.39 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/03/
eammon-mccabe-a-life-in-pictures

 

 

 one of the most

celebrated and admired

newspaper photographers

and picture editors

of his generation

 

(...)

 

McCabe

was a multi-award-winning

sports photographer

at the Observer from 1976

and later became a trailblazing

picture editor of the Guardian

at a key moment in its history.

 

His third act

was as a portrait photographer,

with 29 examples of his work

in the collection

of the National Portrait Gallery.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/03/
guardian-observer-photographer-eamonn-mccabe-dies

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/
eamonnmccabe

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/gallery/2018/may/21/
own-limited-edition-print-sports-photographer-eamonn-mccabe

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/03/
eammon-mccabe-a-life-in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/03/
guardian-observer-photographer-eamonn-mccabe-dies

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/30/
eamonn-mccabe-lemmy-obituary-letter

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/28/
heysel-stadium-tragedy-liverpool-juventus-eamonn-mccabe

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/16/
landscape-photography-eamonn-mccabe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roger Bamber    UK    1944-2022

 

 

 

 

Old Bailey Bomb, 1973

 

Bamber:

‘An IRA car bomb blew up the west front of the Old Bailey

on a terrible day of tension and bomb scares in London.

I ran down Fleet Street and,

as I ducked past the police trying to rope off the area,

I saw this barrister being rescued.

 

His ripped, blood-soaked shirt, dazed gaze and bandaged head

told the whole story in a frame.

 

Later, a box of cheese and wine from El Vino’s,

the legal watering hole of choice in Fleet Street,

was delivered to me.

 

A card inside from the barrister James Crespi read:

‘Dear Roger, thank you for the best portrait of me ever taken’

 

A life less ordinary: Roger Bamber’s state of the nation – in pictures

An IRA bomb victim,

a miniature railway obsessive and Thatcher with a handful of cow dung

– these superb images tell a vivid tale of Britain

G

Tue 4 Apr 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/apr/04/
a-life-less-ordinary-roger-bambers-state-of-the-nation-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photojournalist

who covered war, politics and music

for newspapers from the Sun to the Guardian

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/apr/04/
a-life-less-ordinary-roger-bambers-state-of-the-nation-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/sep/22/
roger-bamber-obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Schapiro    USA    1934-2022

 

 

 

 

We Shall Overcome, 1964

Students during the summer of 1964 in Oxford, Ohio

 

Photograph: Steve Schapiro

Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery

 

Ali to Andy W: Steve Schapiro’s life in photography – in pictures

The activist, documentarian and photographer, who has died aged 87,

captured the American civil rights movement

while shooting the likes of David Bowie and Robert Kennedy

G

Tue 18 Jan 2022    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jan/18/
ali-to-andy-warhol-steve-schapiros-life-in-photography-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/jan/18/
ali-to-andy-warhol-steve-schapiros-life-in-photography-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/dec/19/
steve-schapiro-heroic-times-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sabine Weiss    Switzerland    1924-2021

 

 

 

 

Metro, 1955

 

 Petticoats over Broadway:

entrancing shots of New York in the 1950s – in pictures

The bright lights and full skirts of mid-20th century New York

are effortlessly captured in Sabine Weiss’s

poignant pictures of the city that never sleeps

G

Wednesday 1 April 2015    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/01/
new-york-1950s-sabine-weiss-in-pictures 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheval, 1952.

 

Photograph: Sabine Weiss

via Holden Luntz Gallery

 

Sabine Weiss, Last of the ‘Humanist’ Street Photographers, Dies at 97

Like Robert Doisneau and Brassaï,

she shot life in postwar Paris as it really was.

But she also won fame for her reporting and fashion work.

NYT

January 4, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/
arts/sabine-weiss-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/
arts/sabine-weiss-dead.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/dec/31/
sabine-weiss-obituary

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jul/03/
sabine-weiss-interview-photographer-pompidou-paris

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/apr/01/
new-york-1950s-sabine-weiss-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael David Rock / Mick Rock

(born Michael Edward Chester Smith)

UK    1948-2021

 

The 'man who shot the 70s',

capturing classic images

of Blondie, Bowie and Queen,

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/23/
photographer-mick-rock-blondie-bowie-queen-miley-cyrus

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/
1057450818/mick-rock-photographer-bowie-queen-blondie-dead

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/nov/19/
mick-rock-music-photographer-dies-david-bowie-queen

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/31/
photographer-mick-rock-social-media-means-we-wont-see-another-lou-reed

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/23/
photographer-mick-rock-blondie-bowie-queen-miley-cyrus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tom Stoddart    UK    1953-2021

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/nov/18/
berlin-wall-blair-battlebus-tom-stoddart-career-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colin Jones    UK    1936-2021

 

 

 

 

Scottswood Road area, Newcastle, 1963

 

Jones never retired

but stayed busy in his darkroom at home in Barnes, west London,

making museum-quality prints of photographs from his archive,

some of which he sold to collectors

 

Photograph: © Colin Jones

Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery, London.

 

The compassionate vision of photojournalist Colin Jones – in pictures

The Royal Ballet dancer Colin Jones became

one of the most celebrated photojournalists of postwar Britain,

covering subjects as diverse

as working life in the industrial north-east,

the English National Ballet,

the Alabama race riots

and African-Caribbean youth in 1970s London with an empathetic eye.

Jones also documented arts and youth culture

with his iconic portraits of the Who, Julie Christie, Tom Waits

and mods and rockers in Brighton in 1964

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the-compassionate-vision-of-photojournalist-colin-jones-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photojournalist and ballet dancer

 

The Royal Ballet dancer Colin Jones

became one of the most celebrated

photojournalists of postwar Britain,

covering subjects

as diverse as working life

in the industrial north-east,

the English National Ballet,

the Alabama race riots

and African-Caribbean youth

in 1970s London

with an empathetic eye.

 

Jones also documented

arts and youth culture

with his iconic portraits

of the Who, Julie Christie,

Tom Waits

and mods and rockers

in Brighton in 1964

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/02/
the-compassionate-vision-of-photojournalist-colin-jones-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/02/
the-compassionate-vision-of-photojournalist-colin-jones-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2018/may/12/
unseen-photographs-of-civil-rights-conflict-in-birmingham-alabama-1963
- Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sophie Rivera    USA    1938-2021

 

photographer of Latin New York

 

Her portraits

of fellow Puerto Rican New Yorkers

could be both majestic and tender.

 

She was also a constant

street photographer

and later made herself

her subject.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/
arts/sophie-rivera-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/
arts/sophie-rivera-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Katherine Lahusen    USA    1930-2021

 

gay rights activist and photographer

 

She and her partner,

Barbara Gittings,

were on the front lines

long before Stonewall,

and Ms. Lahusen

photographed protests

during the movement’s

earliest days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/
us/kay-tobin-lahusen-gay-rights-activist-and-photographer-dies-at-91.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/
us/kay-tobin-lahusen-gay-rights-activist-and-photographer-dies-at-91.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Houston    USA    1935-2021

 

Robert Houston

(...)

documented

the civil rights movement,

poverty and homelessness

in the United States

 

. Born in East Baltimore in 1935,

he was inspired by his friend

and fellow photographer Gordon Parks

to start work for the Black Star agency

and then at Life magazine,

for which he notably covered

the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/06/
robert-houston-witness-to-injustice-and-social-change-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/06/
robert-houston-witness-to-injustice-and-social-change-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grace Robertson    UK    1930-2021

 

 

 

 

Tea Time, 1952.

 

A woman, her daughter in her lap,

waits for news of her husband

who has been captured in Korea

 

Birth pangs to sugar rushes:

Grace Robertson's postwar Britain – in pictures

Grace Robertson, who has died aged 90,

documented everyday life for Picture Post

at a time when photojournalism was dominated by men.

Her pioneering work captured a nation at work,

at play – and in the delivery room

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Thu 14 Jan 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/14/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trailblazing photojournalist,

regularly published in Picture Post,

documented life in postwar Britain

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/13/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-with-a-gentle-eye-dies-at-90

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/14/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/13/
grace-robertson-pioneering-photographer-with-a-gentle-eye-
dies-at-90  - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benedict Joseph Fernandez III    USA    1936-2021

 

 

 

 

Benedict J. Fernandez

captured the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967

before he gave a speech at the United Nations.

 

Mr. Fernandez was known

in part for his many images of King.

 

Photograph: Benedict J. Fernandez

 

Benedict J. Fernandez, Photojournalist and Mentor, Dies at 84

He photographed Martin Luther King Jr.

and produced classic images of the protest movements of the 1960s.

NYT

March 3, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/
arts/benjamin-j-fernandez-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photojournalist and mentor

 

He photographed

Martin Luther King Jr.

and produced classic images

of the protest movements

of the 1960s.

 

(...)

 

professed “photo-anthropologist”

who captured the persona

of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

and the fervor of the King era’s

protest movements

before mentoring a generation

of professional photographers

 

(...)

 

Mr. Fernandez became

an award-winning photojournalist

and documentarian

by transforming adversities

to his advantage.

 

Raised in East Harlem,

where he struggled

with reading in school

because of undiagnosed dyslexia,

he was not yet a teenager

when he received

a simple Brownie camera as a gift

and discovered

a new form of expression.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/
arts/benjamin-j-fernandez-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/
arts/benjamin-j-fernandez-dead.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/22/
my-best-shot-benedict-j-fernandez-newark-riots-us

 

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/01/
no-choice-but-to-protest-and-take-pictures/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baron Alan Wolman    USA    1937-2020

 

(Rolling Stone)’s first photographer,

capturing Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin,

the Grateful Dead and many more

in the days before image control.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/
arts/baron-wolman-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/
arts/baron-wolman-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Killip    Isle of Man / UK    1946-2020

 

hard-hitting photographer

of Britain's working class

 

Influential artist,

hailed by Martin Parr

as a ‘key player’

in British photography,

captured human dignity

amid industrial decline

in England’s north-east

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/14/
chris-killip-hard-hitting-photographer-of-britains-working-class-dies-aged-74

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/14/
chris-killip-hard-hitting-photographer-of-britains-working-class-
dies-aged-74

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/oct/14/
sprouts-skinheads-sundays-and-supermarkets-chris-killip-
in-pictures - Guardian pîctures gallery

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jan/05/
the-big-picture-chris-killip-the-last-ships-tyne-wallsend

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daniel Budnik    USA    1933-2020

 

His assignments

for leading magazines

took him to pivotal events

of the civil rights era.

 

He was also known

for his photographs of artists.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/
arts/dan-budnik-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/
arts/dan-budnik-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Herron    USA    1931-2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Paul Fusco    USA    1930-2020

 

 

 

 

‘I was using low-speed colour film,

I was on a moving train

 I was photographing moving subjects,

my shutter speeds were getting lower and lower

and yet there were still endless numbers of mourners

I was trying to photograph.’

 

Photograph: Paul Fusco

Magnum Photos

 

Robert F Kennedy's funeral train by Paul Fusco – in pictures

Magnum photographer Paul Fusco, who has died aged 90,

covered stories ranging from police brutality in New York

to the long-term effects of the Chernobyl disaster

and people living with Aids in California.

 

In 1968, he photographed the spectators

lined along the route of Robert F Kennedy’s

funeral train from New York to Washington,

capturing the emotion of the nation

and becoming one of the most celebrated

series of photographs of the time

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jul/17/
robert-f-kennedy-funeral-train-by-paul-fusco-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/
arts/paul-fusco-photographer-dies.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/20/
photographer-paul-fusco-
america-aids-patients-robert-kennedy-funeral-train-magnum-photos

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jul/17/
robert-f-kennedy-funeral-train-by-paul-fusco-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boris Yaro / Boris Anthony Yaroslavski    USA    1938-2020

 

photographer

for The Los Angeles Times

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/
business/media/boris-yaro-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Frank    USA    1924-2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Downing    UK    1940-2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Santu Mofokeng    SA    1956-2020

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Ray    USA    1936-2020

 

Life magazine photographer

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jan/20/
life-magazine-photographer-bill-ray-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jan/20/
life-magazine-photographer-bill-ray-in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victor Paul Skrebneski    USA    1929-2020

 

 

 

 

Truman Capote,

photographed as part of the black turtleneck series,

in 1977

 

Photograph: Victor Skrebneski

 

Warhol in black, Bowie in the nude:

Victor Skrebneski shoots the stars – in pictures

The American fashion photographer, who died last month aged 90,

was known for his stylised black-and white-portraits of celebrities.

Here are some of his most striking shots

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warhol-in-black-and-bowie-in-the-nude-portraits-by-victor-skrebneski-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/may/13/
warhol-in-black-and-bowie-in-the-nude-portraits-by-victor-skrebneski-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stuart Heydinger    UK    1927-2019

 

Brilliant news photographer

who worked for the Times

and then became chief photographer

of the Observer

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/03/
stuart-heydinger-obituary

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/03/
stuart-heydinger-obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sally Soames    UK    1937-2019

 

Sally Soames

(...)

was one of a handful

of female photographers

who came to prominence

in the heyday of Fleet Street.

 

She shot only

in black and white,

believing that it possessed

“a greater visual impact

than colour”,

and preferred working

with natural light.

 

Like her direct contemporary

Don McCullin,

who shared those inclinations,

she got her first assignment

at the Observer

and then made her name

at the Sunday Times.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/23/
sally-soames-obituary

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/oct/23/
sally-soames-obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jill Freedman    USA    1939-2019

 

 

 

 

“Gun Play, Street Cops,” 1979

 

Photograph: Jill Freedman

 

Jill Freedman, Photographer Who Lingered in the Margins, Dies at 79

She immersed herself

in the rougher precincts of American life for months at a time,

portraying their denizens as noble but not necessarily heroic.

NYT

Oct. 9, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/
arts/jill-freedman-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

adventurous photographer

who immersed herself

for months at a time

in the lives of street cops,

firefighters, circus performers

and other tribes

she felt were misunderstood

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/
arts/jill-freedman-dead.html

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/oct/05/
jill-freedman-nypd-in-pictures

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/
arts/jill-freedman-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Oliver Shearer    USA    1947-2019

 

 

 

 

John Shearer

outside the Attica Correctional Facility in western New York,

where he documented a bloody uprising by inmates in 1971.

 

Photograph: Bill Ray

The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images

 

John Shearer, Who Photographed Tumultuous 1960s, Dies at 72

Mr. Shearer joined the staff of Look magazine at the age of 20,

becoming one of the few black photographers

at a major national publication.

NYT

June 27, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
arts/john-shearer-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr. Shearer was more than

a photojournalist:

 

He made animated films,

worked in publishing,

taught at the Columbia

Graduate School of Journalism

and collaborated with his father

on a children’s book series

about a young black detective,

Billy Jo Jive.

 

It became the basis

of an animated feature

for “Sesame Street.”

 

He also wrote books

for young readers,

like “I Wish I Had an Afro” (1970),

about a poor black family

living in the midst of wealth.

 

But the public knew him

best through his pictures.

 

A few years after his photo

of the Kennedy funeral appeared,

Mr. Shearer joined

the staff of Look.

 

At 20

he was the magazine’s

second-youngest

staff photographer;

the youngest had been

the director Stanley Kubrick,

who was 18 when he was hired

in the mid-1940s.

 

At the time,

Mr. Shearer was one

of the few black photographers

at a major publication.

 

His race gave him

a different sensibility

in seeing his subjects

and, some said,

a greater sense of responsibility

in how he portrayed them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
arts/john-shearer-dead.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/
arts/john-shearer-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vivian Cherry    USA    1920-2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Goldblatt    SA    1930-2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arlene Harriet Gottfried    USA    1950-2017

 

Arlene Gottfried ('s)

arresting images

of ordinary people in New York’s

humbler neighborhoods

earned her belated recognition

as one of the finest

street photographers

of her generation

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/
arts/design/arlene-gottfried-dead-new-york-city-photographer.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/
arts/design/arlene-gottfried-dead-new-york-city-photographer.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Godfrey Morris    USA    1916-2017

 

John Morris may be

an avowed pacifist,

but his career has been largely

defined by war.

 

He was born during WWl,

was Robert Capa’s photo editor

at Life magazine during WWll

and was the first

to put graphic photos

of the Vietnam War

on the New York Times

front page.

 

He is widely considered

to be one of the most

important editors

in the history of photography.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/
as-he-turns-100-john-morris-recalls-a-century-in-photojournalism/

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/video/obituaries/
100000002453870/the-last-word-john-g-morris-obituary.html
- 28 July 2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/
business/john-g-morris-renowned-photo-editor-dies-at-100.html

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/
as-he-turns-100-john-morris-recalls-a-century-in-photojournalism/

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/apr/17/
photography-henricartierbresson - broken link

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Newell-Smith    UK    1937-2017

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Howard Leonid Bingham    USA    1939-2016

 

Life with the Black Panthers    1968

 

With their guns, uniforms and talent

for political theatre,

the Black Panthers topped the FBI's list

of 'threats to national security' in the 60s.

 

In 1968

Howard Bingham spent six months

trailing and photographing them

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2009/oct/25/
black-panthers-howard-l-bingham

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2009/oct/25/
black-panthers-howard-l-bingham

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/oct/25/
black-panthers-photographs-howard-bingham

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hikaru “Carl” Iwasaki    USA    1923-2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Stettner    USA    1922-2016

 

photographer

who explored the streets

of the two cities he called

his “spiritual mothers,”

New York and Paris,

recording the daily lives

of ordinary people

 

(...)

 

Mr. Stettner, a New Yorker,

was a product of the Photo League

and its emphasis

on socially conscious,

documentary work,

exemplified by members

and supporters like Weegee,

Berenice Abbott

and Robert Frank.

 

“I have never been

interested in photographs

based solely on aesthetics,

divorced from reality,”

he wrote in his photo collection

“Wisdom Cries Out in the Streets,”

published in 1999.

 

“I also doubt very much

whether this is possible.”

 

While living in Paris

after World War II,

he also found inspiration

in a new wave

of French photographers,

including Robert Doisneau,

Brassaï

and Henri Cartier-Bresson,

whose outlook seemed to dovetail

with the league’s.

 

He was particularly

taken with Brassaï.

 

“Brassaï showed me

that it was possible

to find something significant

in photographing subjects

in everyday life

doing ordinary things

by interpreting them

in your own way

and with your own

personal vision,”

Mr. Stettner told

The Financial Times

in June.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/arts/design/louis-stettner-dead.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/15/
arts/design/louis-stettner-dead.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dave Heath    USA    1931-2016

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert De Witt Fitch    USA    1939-2016

 

 

 

 

Bob Fitch

photographed prominent black civil rights figures

as the official chronicler

of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

 

Here, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

captured the attention of a young boy

as he spoke before a crowd

in Eutaw, Ala., in 1966.

 

Bob Fitch,

via Department of Special Collections,

Stanford University Libraries

 

Bob Fitch, Photojournalist of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 76

NYT

By SAM ROBERTS    MAY 3, 2016

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/
arts/bob-fitch-photojournalist-of-civil-rights-era-dies-at-76.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

self-taught photojournalist

whose images chronicled

America’s deep-seated ambivalence

over civil rights and illustrated

the passion underscoring

other protest movements

since the 1960s

 

(...)

 

“Photojournalism seduced me,”

Mr. Fitch wrote on his website.

 

“It was my way to support

the organizing for social justice

that was transforming history,

our lives and future.”

 

Mr. Fitch, a preacher’s son

who became

an ordained minister himself,

was transformed

from a Berkeley, Calif.,

teenager who rejected

religious ritual

into an instrument

of social justice

by sundry catalysts:

 

his family’s fundamental

Christian ethos,

the writing of James Baldwin

and the music of Pete Seeger.

 

He photographed

the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

and other prominent

black civil rights figures

as the official chronicler

of the organization they founded,

the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference;

 

Dorothy Day

of the Catholic Workers

Movement;

 

Cesar Chavez

of the United Farm Workers

(his photo was the prototype

for a 2002 postage stamp),

and the Jesuit priests

Daniel and Philip Berrigan

and their followers

who opposed the draft

and the war in Vietnam.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/
arts/bob-fitch-photojournalist-of-civil-rights-era-
dies-at-76.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/
arts/bob-fitch-photojournalist-of-civil-rights-era-
dies-at-76.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Robert Gatewood    USA    1942-2016

 

boundary-pushing photographer

who mapped,

provocatively and disturbingly,

the subcultures of strippers,

sex-club devotees, bikers,

body piercers and fetishists

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/
arts/charles-gatewood-photographer-of-extremes-dies-at-73.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/05/
arts/charles-gatewood-photographer-of-extremes-dies-at-73.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert Melvin Adelman    USA    1930-2016

 

freelance photographer

whose vivid images

of unspeakable

brutality and despair

brought segregation

and the civil rights movement

home to Americans

in the 1960s

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/arts/design/
bob-adelman-photographer-who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/
arts/design/bob-adelman-photographer-
who-captured-the-emotion-of-the-civil-rights-movement-dies-at-85.html

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/
bob-adelman-civil-rights-obit-photos/

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/20/
471195573/bob-adelman-who-photographed-iconic-civil-rights-moments-dies

 

 https://www.npr.org/2008/01/14/18079739/photo

- NPR podcast with transcript

Updated January 14, 2008 2:28 PM ET

Published January 14, 2008 9:00 AM ET

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/jan/03/
photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leo Antony Gleaton    USA    1948-2015

 

photographer

who turned his back

on a career in New York fashion

and embarked

on an itinerant artistic quest,

documenting

the lives of black cowboys

and creating images

of the African diaspora

in Latin America

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/arts/design/
tony-gleaton-67-dies-leaving-legacy-in-pictures-of-africans-in-the-americas.html

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/08/23/
432629171/tony-gleaton-photographing-the-african-story-across-the-americas

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/
arts/design/tony-gleaton-67-dies-leaving-legacy-
in-pictures-of-africans-in-the-americas.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Henry Harbutt    USA    1935-2015

 

 

 

 

Charles Harbutt's photo

"Bride in Church Basement, Granite City, Illinois , 1965.''

 

Photograph: Charles Harbutt

 

Charles Harbutt,

Photojournalist With an Eye for Art as Well as News,

Dies at 79

By SAM ROBERTS

NYT

JULY 2, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/
arts/charles-harbutt-photojournalist-with-an-eye-for-art-as-well-as-news-dies-at-79.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photojournalist

who infused his work

with evocative imagery

and an art photographer

who transformed

conventional scenes

into surreal metaphors

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/
arts/charles-harbutt-photojournalist-with-an-eye-for-art-as-well-as-news-dies-at-79.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/03/
arts/charles-harbutt-photojournalist-with-an-eye-for-art-
as-well-as-news-dies-at-79.html  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harold Martin Feinstein    USA    1931-2015

 

Harold Feinstein ('s)

celebrated series

of black-and-white photographs

of Coney Island in the 1950s

established him as one of the most

accomplished recorders

of the American experience

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/
arts/harold-feinstein-dies-at-84-froze-new-york-moments-in-black-and-white.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/
arts/harold-feinstein-dies-at-84-froze-new-york-moments-in-black-and-white.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dan Farrell    USA    1930-2015

 

photographer

for The Daily News in New York

known for his image

of John F. Kennedy Jr.

saluting his father’s coffin

 

(...)

 

In 50 years at the newspaper,

Mr. Farrell photographed

the Beatles’ first American visit,

Bing Crosby on the subway

and President Jimmy Carter

jumping a fence

at La Guardia Airport.

 

But his most

memorable image

was of the president’s son.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/nyregion/
dan-farrell-photographer-who-captured-kennedy-funeral-salute-dies-at-84.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/18/nyregion/
dan-farrell-photographer-who-captured-kennedy-funeral-salute-dies-at-84.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ray K. Metzker    USA    1931-2014

 

the abstract genius

of Ray K Metzker – in pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/feb/03/
abstract-genius-ray-k-metzker-photographs-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfred Wertheimer    Germany, USA    1929-2014

 

photographer

who for a few fleeting days in 1956

captured strikingly intimate images

of a 21-year-old Elvis Presley

just as he was becoming

a rock ’n’ roll sensation

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/
arts/music/alfred-wertheimer-early-photographer-of-elvis-presley-dies-at-84.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/
arts/music/alfred-wertheimer-early-photographer-of-elvis-presley-dies-at-84.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michelangelo Everard du Cille    Jamaica, USA    1956-2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis Baltz    USA    1945-2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shirley Baker    UK    1932-2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Reginald Redfern    UK    1936-2014

 

David Redfern ('s)

photographs of Louis Armstrong,

John Lennon, Frank Sinatra

and others

captured a half-century

of popular music

and formed the core

of an extensive archive

of musical images

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/
arts/design/david-redfern-british-photographer-of-jazz-and-pop-dies-at-78.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/
arts/design/david-redfern-british-photographer-of-jazz-and-pop-dies-at-78.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jane Bown    UK    1925-2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lida Moser    USA    1920-2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Patricia Anne "Tish" Murtha    UK    1956-2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Frank Michael Dominis    USA    1921-2013

 

Life magazine photographer

who was known

for capturing celebrities,

wild animals and presidents

at their unguarded best,

and who was caught off guard himself

while taking his most famous picture

— of two American medal winners

raising black-gloved fists

at the 1968 Olympics —

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/
arts/design/john-dominis-a-star-life-magazine-photographer-dies.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/
arts/design/john-dominis-
a-star-life-magazine-photographer-dies.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saul Leiter    USA    1923-2013

 

 New York at midcentury

was a monochrome town,

or so its best-known

documentarians

would have us believe.

 

But where

eminent photographers

like Weegee, Diane Arbus

and Richard Avedon

captured the city

most often in clangorous,

sharp-edged black and white,

Saul Leiter saw it

as a quiet polychrome symphony

— the glow of neon,

the halos of stoplights,

the golden blur of taxis —

a visual music

that few of his contemporaries

seemed inclined to hear.

 

One of the first professionals

to photograph New York City

regularly in color, Mr. Leiter (...)

was among the foremost

art photographers of his time,

despite the fact that his work

was practically unknown

to the general public.

 

Of the tens of thousands

of images he shot

— many now esteemed

as among the finest examples

of street photography

in the world —

most remain unprinted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/
arts/saul-leiter-photographer-with-a-palette-for-new-york-dies-at-89.html

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/aug/09/
saul-leiter-photos-paintings-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/03/
saul-leiter-american-photographer-unseen-images

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/aug/15/
saul-leiter-nude-friends-and-lovers-
in-pictures
- Guardian pictures gallery

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/
arts/saul-leiter-photographer-with-a-palette-for-new-york-dies-at-89.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Mitchell    USA    1925-2013

 

(his) bulging

photographic portfolio

of actors, writers, painters,

musicians and especially dancers

describes a pictorial history

of the arts in the late 20th century

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/
arts/jack-mitchell-photographer-of-the-arts-dies-at-88.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/
arts/jack-mitchell-photographer-of-the-arts-dies-at-88.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/11/09/
obituaries/mitchell-obit.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah Lou Turbeville    USA    1932-2013

 

Deborah Turbeville

(...)

almost single-handedly

turned fashion photography

from a clean, well-lighted thing

into something dark, brooding

and suffused

with sensual strangeness

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/fashion/deborah-turbeville-fashion-photographer-dies-at-81.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/26/
fashion/deborah-turbeville-fashion-photographer-dies-at-81.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Eppridge    Argentina, USA    1938-2013

 

Guillermo Alfredo Eduardo Eppridge

 

award-winning photojournalist

who made his most enduring mark

with a historic image

of a mortally wounded

Senator Robert F. Kennedy

lying on the floor

of a Los Angeles hotel

in June 1968

 

(...)

 

Mr. Eppridge and his camera

had been eyewitnesses

elsewhere.

 

He photographed

Latin American revolutions,

the Woodstock music festival,

the civil rights movement.

 

After three civil rights workers

were killed by the Ku Klux Klan

in Mississippi in 1964,

he and a reporter

lived with the family

of one of the victims,

James Chaney, for a day or two.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/
us/bill-eppridge-who-captured-powerful-60s-images-dies-at-75.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/
us/bill-eppridge-who-captured-powerful-60s-images-
dies-at-75.html

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/
the-moment-a-photographer-became-a-historian/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Elliot Tanner    USA    1931-2013

 

jazz photographer

whose evocative and sometimes

ethereal image of Duke Ellington,

Dizzy Gillespie,

Thelonious Monk and others

helped define the genre visually

on scores of album covers

and in magazines,

exhibitions and books

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/arts/music/lee-tanner-jazz-performance-portraitist-is-dead-at-82.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/
arts/music/lee-tanner-jazz-performance-portraitist-is-dead-at-82.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis Morley    HK, UK, France, Australia    1925-2013

 

(Lewis Morley) chronicled

changing Britain of the 60s

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/07/lewis-morley-donates-archive-photographs

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/07/
lewis-morley-donates-archive-photographs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bert Stern    USA    1929-2013

 

Photographer and film-maker

who took some of the last shots

of Marilyn Monroe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/30/bert-stern

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jun/30/
bert-stern

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wayne Forest Miller    USA    1918-2013

 

photographer

whose intimate images

from the front lines of war,

the streets of Chicago’s South Side

and his own family life

captured a world in transition

in the middle of the 20th century

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/
arts/design/wayne-miller-photographer-of-war-and-peace-dies-at-94.html

 

 

https://vimeo.com/14414088

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/
arts/design/wayne-miller-photographer-of-war-and-peace-dies-at-94.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/05/25/
arts/design/20130525miller-obit.html

 

https://pro.magnumphotos.com/
C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_9_VForm&ERID=24KL534NBZ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ozzie Sweet    USA    1918-2013

 

 (born Oscar Cowan)

 

At the end of World War II,

Ozzie Sweet’s picture of a friend

posed as a German soldier surrendering

appeared on the cover of Newsweek

— “the magazine of news significance,”

as it billed itself then.

 

Not a stratagem

that would pass muster

in contemporary journalism,

but Mr. Sweet,

who had apprenticed

to the Mount Rushmore sculptor

Gutzon Borglum, appeared

in a Cecil B. DeMille film

and helped create promotional ads

for the United States Army,

found the art in photography

to be in creating an image,

not capturing one.

 

He considered himself

not a news photographer

but a photographic illustrator,

and like the work

of the painter Norman Rockwell,

whom he claimed as an influence,

his signature images

from the 1940s through the 1950s

and into the 1960s,

many in the fierce hues

of increasingly popular color film

that emulated

the emergent Technicolor

palate of American movies,

helped define

— visually, anyway —

an era.

 

Mr. Sweet (...) took photographs

that appeared on an estimated

1,800 magazine covers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/
sports/ozzie-sweet-who-helped-define-new-era-of-photography-dies-at-94.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/
sports/ozzie-sweet-who-helped-define-new-era-of-photography-dies-at-94.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Farrell    UK    1919-2013

 

David Farrell (...)

was known primarily

for his photographic portraits

of the most prominent

artists, actors, authors

and, particularly,

musicians of his time.

 

These ranged

from classical performers

such as Yehudi Menuhin,

Ravi Shankar

and Jacqueline du Pré

to Louis Armstrong,

the Beatles

and the Rolling Stones.

 

He would take

his portable darkroom

with him to filming locations,

where he photographed

Albert Finney,

Julie Christie,

Laurence Olivier

and Ralph Richardson,

among others.

 

His main body of work

dates from the mid-1950s

to the 1980s,

by which time he was working

primarily in cinema,

but he continued

with his photography

well into the digital age.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/11/david-farrell

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/sep/01/
david-farrell-photography-stars-rolling-stones-judi-dench-osborne-samuel

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/feb/11/
david-farrell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balthazar Kora    Hungary, USA    1926-2013

 

one of the leading

architectural photographers

in the period after World War II

when Modernist design

remade the American landscape

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/
arts/design/balthazar-korab-architectural-photographer-dies-at-86.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/27/
arts/design/balthazar-korab-architectural-photographer-dies-at-86.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2013/01/25/
arts/artsspecial/20130125KORAB_OBIT.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Evelyn Hofer    Germany, USA    1922-2009

 

 

 

 

“Anna and Emma,” two chambermaids

 

Photograph: Estate of Evelyn Hofer

 

Photos That Capture the Soul of 1960s Dublin

Nearly six decades ago, a German-born photographer, Evelyn Hofer,

created beautifully crafted shots of the city and its people.

Published Jan. 26, 2024

Updated Jan. 27, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/
books/review/dublin-evelyn-hofer-photography.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

German-American

portrait and documentary photographer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Evelyn_Hofer

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Evelyn_Hofer

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/
books/review/dublin-evelyn-hofer-photography.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Jenkinson    UK    ?-2012

 

 

 

 

C&A department store viewed from the Hole in the Road,

Sheffield, February 1990

 

From picket lines to Palestine:

Who We Are: by Martin Jenkinson - in pictures

His famous protest images put his work

on front pages throughout the 80s,

but every photograph of Martin Jenkinson’s

was a glimpse of our shared humanity

and an insight into the communities

he lived and worked in

G

Tue 27 Nov 2018    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/nov/27/
who-we-are-by-martin-jenkinson--in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(...)

former steelworker

whose love of photography

combined with his politics

and his belief in social justice,

fairness and equality.

 

He was responsible

for some of the most striking images

to have emerged from political

and industrial struggle in Britain

over the last 30 years.

 

Martin captured steelworkers

as they fought for survival,

and was the official photographer

on the People's March for Jobs,

in 1981.

 

He was commissioned

by the National Union of Mineworkers'

newspapers the Miner

and the Yorkshire Miner,

and was at the heart

of the epic strike against

pit closures of 1984-85.

 

His enduring images

include

the arrest of Arthur Scargill;

the launch of the Women

Against Pit Closures movement;

and a smiling pit striker

named Geordie Brealey

wearing a toy policeman's helmet

as he "inspects"

battalions of police officers

lined up against pickets

at Orgreave cokeworks.

 

He was also commissioned

by many other unions, notably

the National Union of Teachers,

to cover their conferences,

galas and other events.

 

An active member

of the National Union of Journalists,

he served

on its national executive committee.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/01/
martin-jenkinson-obituary

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/06/
photographers-scrum-winning-image-picture#img-1

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/nov/27/
who-we-are-by-martin-jenkinson--in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jul/01/
martin-jenkinson-obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roger Prigent     1923-2012

 

(born in Hanoi, Vietnam)

 

Roger Prigent

(...)

gave up a promising career

in fashion photography

when his eyesight began

to fail three decades ago

and (...) became a prominent

Manhattan antiques dealer,

leading a popular new wave

in French Empire furnishings

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/nyregion/
roger-prigent-photographer-turned-antiques-dealer-dies-at-89.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/
nyregion/roger-prigent-photographer-turned-antiques-dealer-dies-at-89.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cornel Lucas    UK    1920-2012

 

British portrait photographer

who created defining images

of Brigitte Bardot,

Katharine Hepburn,

Gregory Peck and a host

of other celebrities

during the 1950s and ’60s,

when publicity photos

were the lifeblood

of the star-making process

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/
arts/cornel-lucas-photographer-whose-portraits-defined-film-stars-dies-at-92.html

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/19/
cornel-lucas 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/
arts/cornel-lucas-photographer-whose-portraits-defined-film-stars-dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bettye Lane    USA    1930-2012

 

 (born Elizabeth Foti)

 

photojournalist

who gained wide recognition

for her rich trove

of pictures documenting

the feminist movement

in the 1970s and ’80s

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/
arts/bettye-lane-photographer-of-protest-dies-at-82.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/
arts/bettye-lane-photographer-of-protest-dies-at-82.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pedro Eduardo Guerrero    USA    1917-2012

 

former art school dropout

who showed up

in the dusty Arizona driveway

of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939,

boldly declared himself a photographer

and then spent the next half-century

working closely with him,

capturing his modernist architecture

on film

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/
arts/design/pedro-guerrero-95-dies-captured-another-dimension-of-art.html 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/
arts/design/pedro-guerrero-95-dies-captured-another-dimension-of-art.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cris Alexander    USA    1920-2012

 

 (born Allen Smith)

 

Mr. Alexander

made it in New York

as a photographer,

taking portraits of the likes

of Martha Graham

and Vivien Leigh;

 

having gallery shows;

 

working for Andy Warhol’s

Interview magazine

and

the New York City Ballet;

 

and providing droll pictures

for the best-selling 1961 satire

of a movie star’s memoir,

“Little Me,”

written by Patrick Dennis

and later adapted

for the Broadway stage

by Neil Simon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/
arts/cris-alexander-actor-and-photographer-dies-at-92.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/
arts/cris-alexander-actor-and-photographer-dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stanley Frank Stearns    USA    1935-2012

 

His iconic photograph

of John F. Kennedy Jr.

saluting his father’s casket

on Nov. 25, 1963,

helped encapsulate

a nation’s grief

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/us/
stan-stearns-who-caught-jfk-jrs-salute-on-film-dies-at-76.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/us/
stan-stearns-who-caught-jfk-jrs-salute-on-film-dies-at-76.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lillian Violet Bassman    USA    1917-2012

 

magazine art director

and fashion photographer

who achieved renown

in the 1940s and ’50s

with high-contrast,

dreamy portraits

of sylphlike models,

then re-emerged in the ’90s

as a fine-art photographer

after a cache of lost negatives

resurfaced

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/
arts/design/lillian-bassman-fashion-and-fine-art-photographer-dies-at-94.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/
arts/design/lillian-bassman-fashion-and-fine-art-photographer-dies-at-94.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/02/14/
arts/design/20120214bassmanSS.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eve Arnold    USA    1912-2012

 

 

 

 

Divorce, Moscow, USSR, 1966

 

Arnold’s first major solo show exhibition

was held at Brooklyn Museum in 1980.

 

In the same year,

she received a lifetime achievement award

from the American Society of Magazine Photographers

 

Brothels, bartenders and film stars:

Eve Arnold’s women – in pictures

The pioneering photojournalist was headhunted by Magnum

and became a personal favourite of Marilyn Monroe.

A new retrospective tells her story

 

The pioneering photojournalist was headhunted by Magnum

and became a personal favourite of Marilyn Monroe.

A new retrospective tells her story

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Mon 10 Jul 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/10/
brothels-bartenders-and-film-stars-eve-arnolds-women-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The longevity of Eve Arnold's career

as a photographer matched

the heterogeneity of her work.

 

Despite the success of her portraits

of the rich and famous,

Arnold (...) was equally well known

for photographing

"the poor, the old and the underdog".

 

She said:

"It's the hardest thing in the world

to take the mundane and try to show

how special it is."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/
eve-arnold

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/jul/10/
brothels-bartenders-and-film-stars-eve-arnolds-women-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/11/
the-big-picture-marilyn-monroe-unravels-in-the-desert

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/mar/11/
eve-arnold-images-released-as-posters-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/13/
eve-arnold-photojournalist-interview-1971

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/04/all-about-eve-arnold-review

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/08/big-picture-eve-arnold

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold-memorable-photographs

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/eve-arnold

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/05/photographer-eve-arnold-dies

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/jul/07/
film 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martine Franck    Belgium    1938-2012

 

A highly versatile artist,

Franck mixed shots of celebrities

with work in the great

humanitarian tradition

of the Magnum agency.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/aug/20/
martine-franck-magnum-photography-pictures

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/aug/19/
martine-franck

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/aug/20/
martine-franck-magnum-photography-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm Wilde Browne    USA    1931-2012

 

Korean war / Vietnam war

photographer

 

Mr. Browne’s

graphic 1963 photographic series

of the fiery suicide of the monk,

Thich Quang Duc,

exposed the deep hostility

to the Saigon regime

months before the ineffectual

South Vietnamese President

Ngo Dinh Diem was shot,

three weeks before Kennedy’s

assassination.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
arts/design/images-of-the-vietnam-war-that-defined-an-era.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/
arts/design/images-of-the-vietnam-war-that-defined-an-era.html

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/
world/asia/malcolm-w-browne-pulitzer-winner-dies-at-81.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horst Faas    Germany    1933-2012

 

 

 

 

Women and children crouched in a muddy canal,

taking cover from intense Vietcong fire. 1966.

 

Photograph: Horst Faas

Associated Press

 


Parting Glance: Horst Faas

By The Associated Press

May. 10, 2012        NYT        May. 10, 2012

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/
a-parting-glance-horst-faas/ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photojournalist's work

in uncovering

the horrors of Vietnam war

helped turn mainstream opinion

against US offensive

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/11/vietnam-war-photographer-horst-faas

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/21/
40-years-on-from-fall-of-saigon-witnessing-end-of-vietnam-war#img-4

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/11/
vietnam-war-photographer-horst-faas

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/may/11/
photographer-horst-faas-in-pictures

 

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2012/05/
legendary-photojournalist-hors.html

 

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/
a-parting-glance-horst-faas/

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/
world/asia/horst-faas-vietnam-war-photographer-dies-at-79.html

 

 

 

Horst Faas > war photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leo Friedman    USA    1919-2011

 

his photograph

of an ebullient Carol Lawrence

and Larry Kert as lovebirds

chasing down a Manhattan street

became the enduring emblem

of the musical “West Side Story”

and the signature image

of a career spent taking pictures

of actors in action

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/
theater/leo-friedman-photographer-of-broadway-dies-at-92.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/07/
theater/leo-friedman-photographer-of-broadway-
dies-at-92.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barry Feinstein    USA    1931-2011

 

photographer who chronicled

the lives of seminal rock ’n’ roll

stars of the 1960s,

and who was perhaps best known

for the stark portrait of Bob Dylan

on the cover of the 1964 album

“The Times They Are A-Changin’”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/
arts/music/barry-feinstein-photographer-of-defining-rock-portraits-dies-at-80.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/
arts/music/barry-feinstein-photographer-of-defining-rock-portraits-dies-at-80.html

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/
24/barry-feinstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Theodore Lux Feininger    Germany, USA    1910-2011

 

painter and photographer

who, as a young student

at the Bauhaus,

used his camera to compile

an invaluable and visually

distinctive record

of the artistic avant-garde

in Germany between the wars

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/
arts/t-lux-feininger-photographer-and-painter-dies-at-101.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/14/
arts/t-lux-feininger-photographer-and-painter-dies-at-101.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Albert Edward West    1933-2011

 

Photographer

with the Guardian for 26 years,

whose career spanned

glass plate and digital

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jun/01/
e-hamilton-west-obituary

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/jun/01/
e-hamilton-west-obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian Lanker    USA    1947-2011

 

photojournalist who showed

that small-city newspapers

could have large-scale impact

through the empathetic

and intimate visual portrayal

of American lives

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/
arts/design/brian-lanker-pulitzer-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-63.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/
arts/design/brian-lanker-pulitzer-winning-photojournalist-dies-at-63.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jerome Liebling    USA    1924-2011

 

(his) subtly powerful pictures

and the lessons

he drew from them

influenced a generation

of socially minded photographers

and documentary filmmakers

 

(...)

 

Mr. Liebling was among a wave

of pioneering photographers

— including Walker Evans,

Berenice Abbott, Helen Levitt

and Gordon Parks — who took

to the streets of New York

in the 1930s and ’40s

to make art by turning their cameras

onto corners of urban life

that had mostly been ignored

by the photographers before them.

 

His experience

as a child of the Depression

growing up in Brooklyn,

Mr. Liebling said,

formed an impulse

throughout his career

to “figure out

where the pain was,

to show things

that people wouldn’t see

unless I was showing them.”

 

Over a half-century

much of his work

depicted painful subjects

far too directly for magazines

or newspapers to show them:

 

mental patients

in state hospitals,

cadavers used

by New York medical students,

blood-drenched workers

at a Minnesota slaughterhouse.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/
arts/design/jerome-liebling-photographer-and-mentor-is-dead-at-87.html

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/sep/07/
jerome-liebling-obituary

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/sep/07/
jerome-liebling-photography

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/29/
arts/design/jerome-liebling-photographer-and-mentor-is-dead-at-87.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Corinne Day    UK    1962-2010

 

Photographer

whose unadorned, plaintive images

exposed a darker side of fashion

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/world/europe/02day.html

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/31/corinne-day-obituary

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/aug/31/corinne-day-kate-moss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Jonathan Lockwood    USA    1932-2010

 

American photojournalist

who had rare opportunities

to capture political, military

and civilian life

in Communist countries,

documenting the treatment

of an American prisoner of war

in North Vietnam

and persuading Fidel Castro

to sit for a long, discursive,

smoke-filled

and highly personal interview

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08lockwood.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/
08lockwood.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian Duffy    UK    1933-2010

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jun/05/
photographer-brian-duffy-dies

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/12/
brian-duffy

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/sep/28/
brian-duffy-photography-exhibition

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/27/
sixties-photographer-brian-duffy-show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Andrew Gibson Gowland    USA    1916-2010

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/
arts/design/05gowland.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim Marshall    USA    1936-2010

 

 

 

 

Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

at Sunset Sound doing post-production

work on Exile on Main Street,

spring 1972, Los Angeles, California.

‘Wonderful work, and a great guy.

He had a way with the shutter

and an amazing way with the eye!’ – Richards

 

hotograph: Jim Marshall

Photography LLC

 

‘He caught us with our trousers down’: Jim Marshall’s Rolling Stones photographs

At a new exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles,

photographer Jim Marshall’s intimate and revealing pictures of the Rolling Stones in 1972

show them letting off steam backstage and performing with dynamism onstage.

The Rolling Stones 1972:

Photographs by Jim Marshall will be on show until June 2023

G

Tue 15 Nov 2022    07.22 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2022/nov/15/
jim-marshall-rolling-stones-photos-mick-jagger-exhibit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2022/nov/15/
jim-marshall-rolling-stones-photos-mick-jagger-exhibit

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2012/nov/22/
rolling-stones-jim-marshall-pictures

 

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/24/
arts/20100325-MARSHALL_index.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charles Lee Moore    USA    1931-2010

 

photographer

who braved physical peril

to capture searing images

— including lawmen

using dogs and fire hoses

against defenseless demonstrators —

that many credit with helping

to propel landmark

civil rights legislation

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/16moore.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/
books/mlk-biography-jonathan-eig.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/
arts/16moore.html

 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/03/
charles_moore.html

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/mar/16/
charles-moore-civil-rights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Fabian Bachrach Jr.    USA    1917-2010

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/
arts/design/02bachrach.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dennis Stock    USA    1928-2010

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/21/
dennis-stock-obituary

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/
arts/design/15stock.html

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/
parting-4/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dennis Hopper    USA    1936-2010

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Roy Rudolph DeCarava    USA    1919-2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nathan Louis "Nat" Finkelstein    USA    1933-2009

 

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/16/
factory-photographer-and-lou-reeds-worst-person-
the-legacy-of-nat-finkelstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry Sultan    USA    1946-2009

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/
arts/14sultan.html

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/
arts/art-in-review-larry-sultan-the-valley.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Douglas Hannaford Jeffery    1917-2009

 

theatre photographer

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/14/
douglas-h-jeffery-obituary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irving Penn    USA    1917-2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hugh (Hubert) van Es    Netherlands    1941-2009

 

The Dutch photographer

Hugh van Es

(...)

became famous

for his iconic picture

of Americans leaving Saigon,

on one of the last helicopters out,

on 29 April 1975,

the day before the city

was captured

by the North Vietnamese army

at the end of the Vietnam war.

 

At the time he was working

as a staff photographer

for United Press International

(UPI).

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/20/
hugh-van-es-obituary-vietnam-war-photography 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/20/
hugh-van-es-obituary-vietnam-war-photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anthony Frank Kersting    UK    1916-2008

 

 

 

 

One of the winged lions of Nineveh, just outside Mosul,

11 August 1944

 

This carved figure is known as a Lamassu,

a creature with the head of a man, wings of an eagle

and the body of a bull.

It was created around 2,700 years ago

in the reign of the Assyrian king Sennacherib

to guard a principal gate into Nineveh.

Heavy rain in April 1941 suddenly exposed the head of this bull

on the site of the northern city gate.

It was destroyed by IS in 2015

 

Lost treasures and ancient ruins:

Anthony Kersting’s Middle East – in pictures

The British photographer documented stunning architectural gems in Iraq

– many since destroyed by Islamic State

G

Wed 3 May 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/03/l
ost-treasures-and-ancient-ruins-anthony-kerstings-middle-east-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/may/03/
lost-treasures-and-ancient-ruins-anthony-kerstings-middle-east-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Philip Jones Griffiths    UK    1936-2008

 

Images captured

by the photojournalist

Philip Jones Griffiths

in Vietnam helped turn the tide

of public opinion

against the war.

 

His remarkably

composed pictures

- taken in the trouble spots

of Central Africa, Algeria,

South-East Asia

and Northern Ireland -

focused attention

on the human cost of warfare.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/21/pressandpublishing2

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/21/
pressandpublishing2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William James Claxton    USA    1927-2008

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/oct/13/
william-claxton-photographer-chet-baker

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/17/
jazz-photography

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/15/
jazz

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2008/oct/15/
photography-art?picture=338596323

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/
arts/design/14claxton.html

 

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=95827792

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cornell Capa    USA    1918-2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred McDarrah    USA    1926-2007

 

The cameras

that Fred W. McDarrah carried

— a boxy old Rolleicord,

and later a battered

35-millimeter Nikon S2 —

weren’t special.

 

Nor was he,

not in his own mind.

 

He was a bit of a square,

he admitted,

and an unlikely chronicler

of the bohemian world

he saw coming into view

in Greenwich Village

in the mid-1950s.

 

What McDarrah (1926-2007)

had was a drive to document,

in galleries and lofts

and cafes and bars,

the painters, musicians, critics,

bookstore owners

and Beat-era poets

and writers he sensed

were making a new world,

one that would spark

the counterculture of the 1960s.

 

“I was a groupie at heart,”

he wrote later.

 

“I wanted to be

part of the action.

 

My camera was my diary,

my ticket of admission,

my way of remembering,

preserving, proving

that I had been there

when it all happened.”

 

McDarrah was the first

staff photographer

at The Village Voice,

America’s Ur-alternative weekly,

founded in 1955.

 

He’d been roommates

with Dan Wolf,

one of the paper’s founders.

 

Wolf had seen

the kinetic photographs

McDarrah was taking

when he wasn’t at his day job

in advertising

on Madison Avenue.

 

McDarrah would go on to work

for The Voice for 50 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/
arts/design/fred-mcdarrah-photographs-village-voice.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/
arts/design/fred-mcdarrah-photographs-village-voice.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don McPhee    UK    1945-2007

 

 

 

 

Boys playing football on a hill

above Oldham, 1982

 

Photograph: Don McPhee

 

Own a limited edition print from photographer Don McPhee

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Thursday 26 October 2017    07.58 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jun/19/
don-mcphee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guardian photographer

based in Manchester

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/mar/27/
pressandpublishing.guardianobituaries

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jun/19/
don-mcphee

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/06/
photographers-scrum-winning-image-picture#img-1

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/feb/24/
miners-strike-photo-don-mcphee

 

 

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2008/apr/17/
photography?picture=333600793

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/mar/27/
pressandpublishing.guardianobituaries 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/gall/
0,8542,1384820,00.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/
0,8542,1385621,00.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/gall/
0,,803674,00.html 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/mar/30/
pressandpublishing.guardianobituaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ernest C. Withers    USA    1922-2007

 

 

 

 

Ernest Withers’s photograph of a march in Memphis in 1968

after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

 

Photograph: Dr. Ernest C. Withers

Sr./Withers Family Trust

 

The Civil Rights Movement Photographer

Who Was Also an F.B.I. Informant

NYT

Jan. 18, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/
books/review/preston-lauterbach-bluff-city.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

one of the most

celebrated photographers

of the civil rights era

- and a paid F.B.I. informer

source in next edition

 

 

 

Starting in the early 1960s,

Withers had spent

nearly two decades

as a paid informant of the F.B.I.,

feeding its agents

information about the activists

he photographed.

 

He not only informed;

he took requests.

 

At one anti-Vietnam War march,

he was asked to photograph

all of the 30-odd protesters,

taking special care

to catch all their faces,

and he turned 80 8-by-10 prints

over to his F.B.I. contact.

 

On occasion,

he sold his work to a local paper,

then gave copies to the bureau.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/
books/review/preston-lauterbach-bluff-city.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/18/
books/review/preston-lauterbach-bluff-city.html

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/
story/story.php?storyId=129884068 - Sept. 15, 2010 -
NPR podcast with transcript

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/
us/14photographer.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joseph John Rosenthal    USA    1911-2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leonard Freed    USA    1929-2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon Parks    USA     1912-2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Humphrey Spender    UK    1910-2005

 

photographer,

photojournalist and painter

 

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/
john-humphrey-spender-1978 

http://www.jameslomax.com/words/1045/
mass-observation-and-humphrey-spender

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/gallery/2008/mar/28/
bolton.worktown?picture=333235760

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/15/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Noggle    USA    1922-2005

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2005/sep/14/
obituaries.mainsection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Mydans    USA    1907-2004

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/18/
arts/carl-mydans-life-photographer-who-chronicled-wars-and-the-depression-
dies-at-97.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Avedon    USA    1923-2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Silk    New Zealand    1916-2004

 

longtime

Life magazine photographer

known for images that captured

both the intimate drama of war

and the raw dynamism of sport

 

(...)

 

George Silk

was born Nov. 17, 1916,

in Levin, New Zealand.

 

An amateur photographer,

he went to work

in a camera shop at 16.

 

When the war began,

in 1939,

he was hired

as a combat photographer

for the Australian

Ministry of Information,

assigned

to follow Australian troops

through North Africa, Greece

and New Guinea.

 

In Libya

with the Desert Rats of Tobruk,

Mr. Silk was captured

by Field Marshal

Erwin Rommel's forces.

 

He escaped 10 days later.

 

In New Guinea,

he took what is probably

his most famous photograph,

in December 1942.

 

The photo shows

a blinded Australian soldier,

barefoot, eyes bandaged,

being led through

the remote countryside

by a traditionally clad

tribesman.

 

The image got Mr. Silk

hired at Life the next year.

 

For Life,

Mr. Silk photographed

Allied forces in Europe

and, at the end of the war,

he commandeered a B-29

to take aerial photos

of a devastated Japan.

 

In 1946, he shot

a photo essay on famine

in China's Hunan Province.

 

For the rest of his career,

Mr. Silk worked primarily

as a sports photographer,

drawing on the passion

for the outdoors acquired

as a boy in New Zealand.

 

Mr. Silk was fascinated

by motion, and sought

innovative ways

to snare its rush

in a still photograph.

 

It was this desire

that caused him sometimes

to separate himself

from his camera,

for example, hooking it up

to a cable and placing it

in a normally inaccessible spot,

like the center of a football field

just before kickoff.

 

For other images,

Mr. Silk adapted

a racetrack's photo-finish camera

to catch the fluid blur

of an athlete in motion.

 

One notable picture,

taken at the 1960 Olympic trials

in Palo Alto, Calif.,

shows an athlete who appears

to be stretched widthwise,

attenuated to unnatural

dimensions.

 

Motion, Mr. Silk found,

lay in the distortion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/arts/28silk.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/
arts/28silk.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Humphrey Spender    UK    1910-2005

 

Pioneering photographer

who chronicled

the state of Britain in the 1930s

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/mar/15/
guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eddie Adams    USA    1933-2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James "Spider" Martin    USA    1939-2003

 

James Martin,

nicknamed Spider

for his wiry 5-foot-2 frame,

grew up in Hueytown, Ala.,

a Southern white boy

who got shivers when “Dixie”

played at football games,

he later wrote.

 

He began working

for The Birmingham News

in 1964.

 

In February 1965,

he was sent to Marion, Ala.,

to cover the shooting

of the civil rights activist

Jimmie Lee Jackson

by state troopers,

a dangerous assignment

no senior colleague wanted,

he later recalled.

 

The plan

for a march to Montgomery

began to take shape,

and he found himself

in Selma on March 7.

 

Mr. Martin’s

images of Bloody Sunday

helped stir public outrage

(and landed him a bonus,

according to documents

in the archive,

despite what Mr. Martin

later described

as the reluctance

of The News to put them

on the front page).

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/
arts/design/spider-martins-photographs-of-the-selma-march-get-a-broader-view.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/16/
arts/design/spider-martins-photographs-of-the-selma-march-get-a-broader-view.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingeborg Hermine "Inge" Morath    Australia, USA    1923-2002

 

 In Paris after the war,

Morath got a job at Magnum,

the elite photo agency

founded by the great pioneers

of photojournalism,

Robert Capa

and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

 

There, she did everything

from secretarial work,

to working with contact sheets,

to cleaning the office

(...)

all the while honing

her skills in photography.

 

In 1955,

she became Magnum's

first full female member.

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/
674579667/biography-captures-the-charisma-and-confidence-of-photographer-inge-morath

 

 

https://www.npr.org/2018/12/10/
674579667/biography-captures-the-charisma-
and-confidence-of-photographer-inge-morath
- NPR podcast with transcript

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Louis Hansel Draper    USA    1935-2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yousuf Karsh    Armenia, Canada    1908-2002

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/sep/27/
heres-looking-at-you-yousuf-karshs-celebrity-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Karales    USA    1930-2002

 

photojournalist

whose 1965 picture

of determined marchers

outlined against

a lowering sky

became a pictorial anthem

of the civil rights movement

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/
arts/james-karales-photographer-of-social-upheaval-dies-at-71.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/
arts/james-karales-photographer-of-social-upheaval-dies-at-71.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will Counts (Ira Wilmer Counts Jr.)    1931-2001

 

Will Counts ('s) photograph

of a black student being jeered

became an enduring image

of the Little Rock, Ark.,

desegregation crisis of 1957,

 

(...)


Mr. Counts taught photojournalism

at Indiana University for 32 years,

retiring in 1995.

 

Before turning to teaching,

Mr. Counts worked

as a photographer-editor

for The Arkansas Democrat

in Little Rock

and for The Associated Press

in Chicago and Indianapolis.

 

He was nominated

for the Pulitzer Prize

for photographs he took

during the September 1957

desegregation battle

at Central High School

in Little Rock.

 

Despite a court order,

Gov. Orval E. Faubus

ordered the National Guard in

to prevent black students

from entering.

 

Mr. Faubus's action prompted

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

to dispatch federal troops

to permit desegregation

of the school.

 

One of the photographs

showed

a 15-year-old black student,

Elizabeth Eckford,

outside the school

with a white girl jeering

in her wake.

 

It was named

by The Associated Press

as one of the top 100 photographs

of the 20th century.

 

Mr. Counts visited

Little Rock in 1997

for the events marking

the 40th anniversary

of the crisis.

 

He said something

had touched him

when Ms. Eckford walked

to the school alone.

 

''From the time Elizabeth

first approached

the National Guard,

you knew

this was a major confrontation

between the governor

and the federal government,''

Mr. Counts recalled.

 

''She became a symbol

for the Little Rock crisis.''

 

''I felt empathy,

but this is a job,'' he said.

 

''That's what you're trained to do.

You just hope you have film.''

 

The white teenager jeering

at Ms. Eckford in the photograph,

Hazel Bryan Massery,

later apologized to Ms. Eckford

and spoke out publicly

against racism.

 

In 1997,

Mr. Counts took a picture

of the two women together

in front of the school.

 

Ms. Eckford told her,

''I think you're very brave

to face the cameras again.''

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/
us/will-counts-70-noted-for-little-rock-photo.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/10/
us/will-counts-70-noted-for-little-rock-photo.html

 

https://www.npr.org/2011/10/02/
140953088/elizabeth-and-hazel-the-legacy-of-little-rock

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helen Muspratt    UK    1905-2001

 

Pioneering photographer

who made her mark

in naturalistic portraiture

and social documentary

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/11/guardianobituaries

 

 

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp08150/
helen-muspratt 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/mar/11/
helen-muspratt-british-photography-communist-radical-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/
news/obituaries/helen-muspratt-9270464.html -
2 August 2001

 

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/aug/11/
guardianobituaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eudora Alice Welty    USA    1909-2001

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
eudora-welty

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/
lens/eudora-welty-photos-mississippi.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jul/24/
guardianobituaries.books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Graham Scott Finlayson    UK    1932-1999

 

 

 

 

‘The firing squad’, Hanky Park, Salford, 1960.

 

Photograph: Graham Finlayson

The Guardian

 

Goodbye to Salford's Hanky Park - archive, 1960

17 March 1960

Just before demolition,

Graham Finlayson photographs the Salford slum

made famous in Love on the Dole

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Mon 16 Mar 2020    16.55 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/16/
goodbye-to-salford-hanky-park-1960

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

English photojournalist

who first worked

 for the Daily Mail and the Guardian,

and later freelanced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Finlayson

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Graham_Finlayson

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/16/
goodbye-to-salford-hanky-park-1960

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lucien Aigner    Hungary, USA    1901-1999

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2016/mar/29/
ucien-aigner-archive-photography-yale-university-archive-gallery
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harry Callahan    USA    1912-1999

 

photographer whose pictures

married the elegant precision

of American modernists

like Ansel Adams

with the restless experimental spirit

of European modernists

like Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/18/
arts/harry-callahan-cool-master-of-the-commonplace-dies-at-86.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/18/
arts/harry-callahan-cool-master-of-the-commonplace-dies-at-86.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Horst P Horst    Germany, USA    1906-1999

 

(Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann)

 

 In a career

that spanned six decades,

Horst photographed

the exquisite creations

of couturiers such as

Chanel, Schiaparelli

and Vionnet in 1930s Paris,

and helped to launch

the careers of many models.

 

In New York a decade later,

he experimented

with early colour techniques

and his meticulously composed,

artfully lit images

leapt from the magazine page.

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/exhibition-horst-photographer-of-style/

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/02/
horst-p-horst-the-king-of-fashion-photography-in-pictures

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/02/
v-and-a-horst-exhibition-photography

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wright Marion Morris    USA    1910-1998

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Esther Bubley    USA    1921-1998

 

American photographer

who specialized

in expressive photos of ordinary people

in everyday lives.

 

She worked

for several agencies

of the American government

and her work also featured

in several news

and photographic magazines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Bubley

 

 

 

documentary photographer

who was noted

for her sober, no-frills portrayal

of post-World War II middle America

 

(...)


In the late 1930's,

Ms. Bubley was drawn

to the picture essays in Life magazine

and to the photography project

of the Farm Security Administration.

 

She studied painting and photography

at the Minneapolis School of Art,

and in 1942 became

a microfilmer of rare books

at the National Archives in Washington.

 

The next year she was transferred

to the darkrooms

of the Office of War Information,

which was headed by Roy Stryker,

former director

of the farm photography project.

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/20/
arts/esther-bubley-photographer-with-a-sober-poetic-eye-76.html

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Esther_Bubley

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/20/
arts/esther-bubley-photographer-with-a-sober-poetic-eye-76.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irwin Allen Ginsberg    USA    1926-1997

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2023/aug/30/
beats-connection-allen-ginsberg-inner-circle-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/
arts/design/13beat.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger    France    1902-1996

 

alias Fatumbi or Fátúmbí

 

The French photographer

born Pierre Verger

made two tours of the US

in the 1930s,

crossing the country by train

for the magazine Paris-soir,

documenting predominantly

black communities in Harlem

and the south

in a time of segregation.

 

The pictures the magazine chose

illustrated a series of articles

on the hardships of life

in the depression-era US,

but new studies of Verger’s archive

show a greater range of interest

in his pictures,

many of which celebrated

jazz age nightlife

and an emergent professional class.

 

The rediscovered images

are collected in a new book

that offers a nuanced portrait

of black America before the war.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/30/
the-big-picture-pierre-fatumbi-verger-shows-another-side-of-1930s-black-america

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/oct/30/
the-big-picture-
pierre-fatumbi-verger-shows-another-side-of-1930s-black-america

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfred Eisenstaedt    USA    1898-1995

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bert Hardy    UK    1913-1995

 

 

 

 

Pool of London    1949

 

Photograph: Bert Hardy

 

‘The ideal picture tells something of the essence of life,’

Hardy wrote.

 

‘It shows some aspect of humanity

the way the person who looks at the picture

will at once recognise as startlingly true’

 

Never had it so good:

Bert Hardy's archive of mid-century life – in pictures

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Thursday 9 June 2016    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/09/
never-had-it-so-good-bert-hardys-archive-of-mid-century-life-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Picture Post photographer

from the 1940s onwards,

Hardy documented everything

from the horrors of Belsen

to monks in Tibet

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/09/
never-had-it-so-good-bert-hardys-archive-of-mid-century-life-in-pictures

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bert_Hardy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Picture_Post

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/feb/13/
bert-hardy-nostalgic-britain-
in-pictures
- Guardian pictures gallery

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/feb/11/
the-big-picture-bert-hardy-photojournalism-
war-peace-striking-chinese-seamen-liverpool

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/09/
never-had-it-so-good-bert-hardys-archive-of-mid-century-life-
in-pictures
- Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi    UK    1921-1994

 

 

 

 

This photograph was taken on Brick Lane,

where Ajetunmobi had a stall buying and selling small goods.

 

He always had his camera on him,

and would stop people in the street

and ask to take their picture

 

‘He made the East End look glamorous’:

Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi’s London – in pictures

As one of Britain’s first black photographers,

Ajetunmobi captured the glitz, diversity

and camaraderie of long-established commun

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Thu 11 Jan 2024    08.00 CET

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jan/11/
he-made-the-east-end-look-glamorous-bandele-tex-ajetunmobis-london-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bandele ‘Tex’ Ajetunmobi

was a self-taught photographer from Lagos

who documented the daily lives

of his friends and acquaintances

in the streets, homes and pubs

around Whitechapel, Stepney

and Mile End boroughs in London

from the late 1940s to the 1980s.

 

(...)

 

As one of Britain’s

first black photographers,

Ajetunmobi captured the glitz,

diversity and camaraderie

of long-established communities

in his adopted home

 

(...)

 

While most of Ajetunmobi’s work

was destroyed when he died in 1994,

his niece – Victoria Loughran –

managed to save some 200 negatives

alongside his camera equipment

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jan/11/
he-made-the-east-end-look-glamorous-bandele-tex-ajetunmobis-london-
in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/jan/11/
he-made-the-east-end-look-glamorous-bandele-tex-ajetunmobis-london-
in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Howard Sochurek    USA    1924-1994

 

photographer for Life magazine

on assignment throughout the world

and later a pioneer

in computer-assisted imaging

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/
obituaries/howard-sochurek-a-photographer-69.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/29/
obituaries/howard-sochurek-a-photographer-69.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin Carter    SA    1960-1994

 

 

 

 

A vulture watches a starving Sudanese child in 1993.

 

Photograph: Kevin Carter

Megan Patricia Carter Trust/Sygma/Corbis

 

Photojournalism in a world of words – in pictures

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Saturday 5 December 2015    08.15 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/dec/05/
photojournalism-in-a-world-of-words-in-pictures 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kevin Carter, a South African,

was a photojournalist,

winning the Pulizer prize

for a harrowing photograph

of a starving child in the Sudan.

 

His work

in the South African townships

helped end end apartheid

in South Africa.

 

Carter committed suicide

only 14 months

after winning the Pulizer.

http://www.thebangbangclub.com/kevin-carter.html

 

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/
obituary-kevin-carter-1373625.html

https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/
0,9171,165071,00.html   

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/04/21/
conflict.journalists.bang.bang.club/  

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/29/
world/kevin-carter-a-pulitzer-winner-for-sudan-photo-is-dead-at-33.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ken Oosterbroek    SA    1963-1994

 

Ken Oosterbroek documented

South Africa's transitional years

to the first democratic election

until he was killed

when National Peace-Keeping

Force members

panicked under fire

in Tokoza in 1994.

http://www.thebangbangclub.com/ken-oosterbroek.html  - broken linl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helen Levitt    USA    1913-2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Berenice Abbott    USA    1898-1991

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norman Parkinson    UK    1913-1990

 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2018/dec/19/
norman-parkinson-portraits-the-beatles-abbey-road

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Parry    UK    1965-1989

 

British photographer

and photojournalist

who worked as a freelance

and on assignment

for newspapers

including The Mail on Sunday,

The Times and The Sunday Times.

 

He was killed at the age of 24

in an aircraft crash in Romania

during the overthrow of Communism.

 

In his honour

a scholarship fund was set up

to encourage and help

young photographers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Parry

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ian_Parry

https://www.ianparry.org/

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2023/dec/12/
hard-hitting-images-from-the-winners-of-the-ian-parry-photojournalism-grant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Vandivert    USA    1912-1989

 

co-founder in 1947

of the agency Magnum Photos.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
William_Vandivert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Hujar    USA    1934-1987

 

 

 

 

Nina Christgau, 1985

‘But it’s the close-up of John McClellan that really gets me,

makes me think of his utter vulnerability and dependence on caregivers

and makes me remember my own tiny baby when I had one,

and how difficult it was, and how people can tell you

it will be hard but you have no idea until it is happening to you.

 

Dina could be feeling all of this in the photo, or not.

We have no idea’

 

Photograph: Peter Hujar

 

Fierce friends:

Moyra Davey is inspired by Peter Hujar’s archive – in pictures

New York artist Moyra Davey found a selection

of little-seen images in the renowned US photographer’s archive

– then responded to them with her own images

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Thu 13 May 2021    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/13/
fierce-friends-moyra-davey-inspired-by-peter-hujar-archive-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/13/
fierce-friends-moyra-davey-inspired-by-peter-hujar-archive-in-pictures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/14/
peter-hujar-photography-new-york

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

André Kertész    Hungary    1894-1985

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jul/23/
andre-kertesz-photography-reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ruth Orkin    USA    1921-1985

 

 

 

 

Comic Book Readers, NYC, 1947

 

In 1940,

Orkin briefly attended Los Angeles City College for photojournalism

before becoming the first messenger girl at MGM Studios in 1941.

 

She had hoped to become a cinematographer

but left after discovering that the cinematographers’ union

did not allow female members

 

American girl behind the camera:

the pioneering work of Ruth Orkin – in pictures

A new auction marks 100 years since the birth of US photographer Ruth Orkin,

who travelled the world making waves in an industry dominated by men

G

Tue 12 Jan 2021    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/12/
american-photographer-ruth-orkin-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/
books/review/ruth-orkin-women-photo-book.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/jan/12/
american-photographer-ruth-orkin-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gjon Mili    Albania    1904-1984

 

born Korça

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/16/
obituaries/gjon-mili-life-magazine-photographer-dies.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ansel Adams    USA    1902-1984

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Brandt    Germany, UK    1904-1983

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photographer Alan Villiers

(AUSTRALIA, 1903-1982)

chronicles the last days

of merchant sailing

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2009/mar/18/
alan-villiers-sailing-ships-photography?picture=344763272

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mavis Walley    Australia    1921-1982

 

 

 

 

‘Life was so simple and so good when we lived on the farm.

We were rich, rich with happiness.

We used to visit the reserve every now and then,

but we never thought we would end up there.’

– Dallas Phillips

 

Moments in Goomalling:

the Mavis Phillips archives – in pictures

 

Mavis Phillips nee Walley

was one of Australia’s earliest known Indigenous photographers.

She grew up in Goomalling, in rural Western Australia,

and started shooting in the 1930s

using a simple cardboard camera called the box Brownie.

 

The images in this collection share the happiest times of her life

when her family lived and worked on a farm owned by a white family,

protected from native welfare.

 

But they were then moved to the Goomalling native eeserve

where they were subject to Western Australia’s apartheid-style laws.

G

Fri 28 May 2021    21.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/29/
moments-in-goomalling-the-mavis-phillips-archives-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mavis Phillips nee Walley

was one of Australia’s

earliest known

Indigenous photographers.

She grew up in Goomalling,

in rural Western Australia,

and started shooting in the 1930s

using a simple cardboard camera

called the box Brownie.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/29/
moments-in-goomalling-the-mavis-phillips-archives-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/may/29/
moments-in-goomalling-the-mavis-phillips-archives-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francesca Woodman    USA    1958-1981

 

Francesca Woodman

committed suicide

at the age of 22,

jumping from a window.

 

She had only  about five years

of photography behind her,

much of it done as a student.

 

Working in black and white,

she frequently took self-portraits

or depicted other young women,

sometimes nude.

 

Often the figures are only partly

visible or blurry,

as if trying to escape the frame.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/arts/design/francesca-woodman-retrospective.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/
arts/design/francesca-woodman-retrospective.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carol Jerrems    Australia    1949-1980

 

 

 

 

Carol Jerrems’ Flying Dog (1973),

Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales.

‘In Ridge Street, Surry Hills,

where a boy was playing ball with his dog,

the photographer was walking to the milk-bar;

the Greek man in that shop had a telephone.

 

She photographed the dog

as it moved in different directions,

trying to catch the ball in mid air.

Fantastic! Haydn Keenan parks his car around the corner.

Sydney is like that, you know?’

Carrol Jerrems, 1974.

 

Photograph: Carol Jerrems

 

The photography of Carol Jerrems

boasts Australia's highest-priced photo – in pictures

Carol Jerrems

was a Melbourne-based photographer who died in 1980,

at just 30 years old.

 

Last November her work rocked the art world

when a print of Vale Street (1975)

sold for $122,000 ($1,00,000 hammer price)

at a Sotheby’s Australia

(now operating as Smith & Singer) auction.

 

In her short and intense career

she focused on figurative compositions

that were intensely personal and informative

of a life lived in Melbourne

in the 70s.

G

Thu 27 Feb 2020    03.06 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/feb/27
/the-photography-of-carol-jerrems-boasts-australias-highest-priced-photo-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/feb/27/
the-photography-of-carol-jerrems-boasts-australias-highest-priced-photo-
in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton    UK    1904-1980

 

 

 

 

Self portrait, 1930s

All photographs from The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s

 

Cecil Beaton:

Icons of the 20th century - in pictures

G

11 June 2018

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jun/11/
cecil-beaton-icons-of-the-20th-century-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Though he's known

for celebrity portraits,

Beaton was one of the most

prolific photographers of life

during the second world war,

taking over 7,000 pictures

between 1940-45 in Britain

as well as China and Africa.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/aug/31/
cecil-beaton-war-photography-pictures 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jun/02/
cecil-beaton-portraits-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jun/11/
cecil-beaton-icons-of-the-20th-century-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/may/10/
early-work-cecil-beaton-photography-beetles-and-huxley-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/05/
cecil-beaton-war-photography-exhibition

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/aug/31/
cecil-beaton-war-photography-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/06/
new-york-photography-in-pictures  - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tōyō Miyatake / 宮武東洋1    Japan, USA    1896-1979

 

Before World War II,

Miyatake had a photo studio

in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo.

 

When he learned

he would be interned

at Manzanar,

he asked a carpenter

to build him

a wooden box with a hole

carved out at one end

to accommodate a lens.

 

He turned this box

into a makeshift camera

that he snuck around the camp

 

(...)

 

Fearful of being discovered,

Miyatake at first only

took pictures at dusk or dawn,

usually without people in them.

 

Camp director Merritt

eventually caught Miyatake,

but instead of punishing him,

allowed him to take pictures openly.

 

Miyatake later became

the camp's official photographer.

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/
466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/02/17/
466453528/photos-three-very-different-views-of-japanese-internment

- NPR podcast with transcript

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Philippe Halsman    USSR, USA    1906-1979

 

 

 

 

Andy Warhol, 1968.

 

The man who made Marilyn fly:

Philippe Halsman's stunt shots – in pictures

G

Friday 23 October 2015    07.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/23/
philippe-halsman-astonish-me-in-pictures#img-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/23/
philippe-halsman-astonish-me-in-pictures#img-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Eugene Smith    USA    1918-1978

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marion Palfi    Germany, USA    1907-1978

 

Ms. Palfi set out to document

racism and segregation

in Irwinton, Ga., the small town

where Caleb Hill, in the first reported

lynching of 1949, was murdered.

 

Later that year, Ms. Palfi spent

two weeks in Irwinton

documenting its residents,

both black and white.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/a-meditation-on-race-in-shades-of-white/

 

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/
a-meditation-on-race-in-shades-of-white/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller    USA    1907-1977

 

 

 

 

Interrogation of a Frenchwoman

who has had her hair shaved off for consorting with Germans,

Rennes, France, 1944

 

Miller wrote:

‘They were stupid little girls,

not intelligent enough to feel ashamed.

 

They’d been living with Hun boyfriend

 since the first week of the occupation’

 

Surrealism and war: the life of Lee Miller – in pictures

A new book of Miller’s photographs, featuring a foreword by Kate Winslet

and an essay from her son, also tells a unique story of the second world war

G

Tue 12 Sep 2023    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/12/
surrealism-and-war-the-life-of-lee-miller-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

photographer and photojournalist

 

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/sep/17/
rebel-rebel-how-lee-millers-defiance-in-fashion-photography-and-life-still-endures

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/sep/12/
surrealism-and-war-the-life-of-lee-miller-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/
fashion/lee-miller-a-womans-war.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/apr/23/
usa.artnews

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/jan/22/
photography 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2002/oct/26/
art.photography 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/arts/pictures/
0,,820967,00.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paul Strand    USA    1890-1976

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/mar/16/
parmesan-and-politics-paul-strands-photographic-genius-in-pictures

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/16/
i-posed-for-paul-strand-the-day-the-great-photographer-walked-into-my-village-in-italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward J. Steichen    Luxembourg, USA    1879-1973

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
edward-steichen 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/oct/29/
fashion-edward-steichens-trailblazing-vogue-photographs-vanity-fair-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/jul/05/
family-of-man-photography-edward-steichen

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/
arts/design/07steichen.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Deakin    UK    1912-1972

 

John Deakin chronicled

the twilight world of 1950s Soho

and the original Brit Art stars

who inhabited it

 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/
portraits-of-the-artists-a-rare-glimpse-into-the-photographic-archive-
of-john-deakin-2080155.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emil Otto Hoppé    Germany, UK    1878-1972

 

Hoppé was one

of the most famous photographers

in the world in the 1920s,

courted by the rich and famous

when not going

on street photography safaris

with his friend George Bernard Shaw,

yet almost forgotten

when he died in 1972

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/07/
national-portrait-gallery-eo-hoppe  

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/feb/13/
eo-hoppe-exhibition-laura-cumming

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/feb/13/
photography-hoppe-portraits-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/07/
national-portrait-gallery-eo-hoppe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tony Ray-Jones    UK    1941-1972

 

 

 

 

Ballroom, Morecambe, 1968

 

Ray-Jones was inspired

by a generation of street photographers

he encountered

while living in New York in the mid-1960s

 

Not so swinging:

how the 60s really looked – in pictures

Before his death at the age of 30,

Tony Ray-Jones travelled through England

photographing what he saw as a disappearing way of life,

as the 1960s drew to an end.

A new exhibition marks the pivotal contribution

he made to British documentary photography

G

Tue 15 Oct 2019    07.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/15/
tony-ray-jones-england-60s-swinging-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From heavy petting in Piccadilly Circus

to horses out grabbing a bite in Windsor,

here's an exclusive series of 1960s images

by Tony Ray-Jones

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/sep/20/
tony-ray-jones-england-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/oct/15/
tony-ray-jones-england-60s-swinging-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/sep/20/
tony-ray-jones-england-in-pictures

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/20/
tony-ray-jones-martin-parr-exhibition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry Burrows    UK    1926-1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Henri Huet    France    1927-1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kent Potter    USA    ?-10 February 1971

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/mar/15/
vietnam-photography-huet-guillot-review

 

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0805/
four-photojournalists-killed-over-laos-come-home.html

 

https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/p/px06.htm

 

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1999/12/burrows199912

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/11/
archives/4-photographers-missing-
as-copter-is-downed-in-laos-4-photographers.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keisaburo Shimamoto    ?-10 February 1971

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/mar/15/
vietnam-photography-huet-guillot-review

 

https://www.pownetwork.org/bios/p/px06.htm

 

https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1999/12/
burrows199912

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/11/
archives/4-photographers-missing-
as-copter-is-downed-in-laos-4-photographers.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diane Arbus    USA    1923-1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Robert W. Kelley    USA    1920-1971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Peto    Hungary, UK    1908-1970

 

Michael Peto's candid images

from the 1950s and 60s

captured the celebrities

and power brokers of the day

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/08/
michael-peto-photographer-archive
 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/08/
michael-peto-photographer-archive

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/sep/08/
michael-peto-archive-in-pictures

 

http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2013/
michael-peto-photographs-mandela-to-mccartney.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Erwin Blumenfeld    Germany, USA    1897-1969

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/23/
fashion-fine-art-and-hitler-the-turbulent-career-of-erwin-blumenfeld-
in-pictures - Guardian pictures gallery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Margaret Watkins    Canada    1884-1969

 

Canadian photographer

Margaret Watkins

rejected traditional gender roles

to become a pioneering

modernist photographer

with Renaissance flair

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/aug/12/
a-fresh-angle-the-revolutionary-gaze-of-margaret-watkins-in-pictures

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/aug/12/
a-fresh-angle-the-revolutionary-gaze-of-margaret-watkins-
in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weegee    USA    1899-1968

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sankeys    UK    c-1900-1970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Bayard Morgan Wootten    USA    1875-1959

 

Though known as a pictorialist

(more of an art photographer

than a straightforward

documentarian),

Ms. Wootten strayed

from the unspoken rules

set by Alfred Stieglitz,

the father of pictorialism,

in the early 20th century.

 

Unlike Mr. Stieglitz,

who was way up north

in New York, Ms. Wootten

did not oppose commercial

photography.

 

In fact, financial gain,

believe it or not,

was the chief reason

she entered the industry,

where she nonetheless

notched several firsts

in her career.

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/
single-mother-pioneering-photographer-the-remarkable-life-of-bayard-wootten/

 

 

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/
single-mother-pioneering-photographer-the-remarkable-life-of-bayard-wootten/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Henry Weston    USA    1886-1958

 

https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
edward-weston  

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/
arts/design/24wilson.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson    UK    1876-1958

 

 

 

 

Woman with bundle under her arm,

in Sanna landscape, Ardnamurchan, 1920-30s, by MEM Donaldson

 

Donaldson: “As regards to my literary and photographic efforts,

they received every discouragement ...

I had no influence whatever – nor have I yet – to help me along

and indeed in this and every other department of my interests,

I have had to fight alone with my back to the wall”

 

Photograph: MEM Donaldson Collection,

courtesy of Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, High Life Highland

 

‘A one-woman job’: early 20th century Scotland – in pictures

A new exhibition gathers together the work of 14 photographers

who cast a female eye over the rituals of rural communities and city dwellers

G

Thu 23 Feb 2023    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/feb/23/
a-one-woman-job-early-20th-century-scotland-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donaldson’s car and chauffeur,

possibly Glen Borrowdale Road, Ardnamurchan, 1920-30s,

by MEM Donaldson

 

Donaldson went back to Scotland repeatedly

to write the first of her travel books

– then built and settled in Sanna in 1927,

on the Ardnamurchan peninsula

 

Photograph: MEM Donaldson Collection,

courtesy of Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, High Life Highland

 

‘A one-woman job’: early 20th century Scotland – in pictures

A new exhibition gathers together the work of 14 photographers

who cast a female eye over the rituals of rural communities

and city dwellers

G

Thu 23 Feb 2023    07.00 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/feb/23/
a-one-woman-job-early-20th-century-scotland-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson    UK    1876-1958

 

known as M.E.M. Donaldson

 

early 20th century British author

and photography pioneer,

and described as

an 'unconventional ethnographer'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ethel_Muir_Donaldson

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/feb/23/
a-one-woman-job-early-20th-century-scotland-
in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alexander Stewart ('Sasha')    UK    1892-1953

 

Alexander Stewart ('Sasha')

was a British portrait photographer

and inventor

who opened his first studio in 1924

and continued in business

until the end of 1940.

 

His society and theatrical portraits

were published

in British society magazines

such as The Tattler

and The Illustrated London News.

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp87592/
alexander-stewart-sasha 

 

 

https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp87592/
alexander-stewart-sasha

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2013/sep/28/
albertina-rasch-girls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pierre P. Pullis    USA    1869-1942

 

Work on New York’s first subway

began in 1900,

running from City Hall

up to Grand Central,

across to Times Square,

and then up the West Side

on Broadway.

 

The contractor,

the Rapid Transit Subway

Construction Company,

embarked on not only

a construction project

of unprecedented scope,

but also a program

of photographic documentation

without precursor.

 

(...)

 

Pierre P. Pullis

and other photographers,

using cameras

with 8-by-10-inch glass negatives,

were assigned to record

the progress of construction

as well as every

dislodged flagstone,

every cracked brick,

every odd building

and anything that smelled

like a possible lawsuit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/
realestate/architectural-photos-captured-new-york-city-life.html

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/
realestate/architectural-photos-captured-new-york-city-life.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cherry Kearton    UK    1871-1940

 

Richard

and Cherry Kearton,

working in the 1890s,

were possibly

the world's first professional

wildlife photographers.

 

Starting at home

in the village of Thwaite

in north Yorkshire

with a cheap box camera,

they managed to capture

some of the finest

early pictures

of birds in their nests,

insects, and mammals.

 

But having no telephoto

lenses or fast film,

they had to lug around

massive plate glass cameras

and devise ever more bizarre

ways to get close

to their shy quarries.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/06/
wildlife-photography-pioneers-attenborough-camera

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/06/
wildlife-photography-pioneers-attenborough-camera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alfred Stieglitz    USA    1864-1946

 

 

 

 

A Danish girl, from issue 26

 

Revisiting the Images of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work Magazine

Two photographers have spent years

compiling a complete set of Camera Work,

Alfred Stieglitz’s groundbreaking publication

that helped shepherd photography into the art world.

NYT

June 12, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/
lens/revisiting-the-images-of-alfred-stieglitz-camera-work-magazine.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/
stieglitz_a.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/
lens/revisiting-the-images-of-alfred-stieglitz-camera-work-magazine.html

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/18/
of-america-work-and-fine-art/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lewis Wickes Hine    USA    1874-1940

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christina Broom    UK    1862-1939

 

UK's first female press photographer

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/30/
museum-london-photo-collection-son-kipling-war-christina-broom

 

 

Christina Broom is regarded as the UK’s first female press photographer. With creativity and a bold pioneering spirit she took her camera to the streets and captured thousands of images of people and events in London, revealing unique observations of the city at the start of the 20th century. - See more at: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/docklands/whats-on/exhibitions-displays/christina-broom/#sthash.Rvja112Q.dpuf

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/19/
christina-broom-portraits-suffragettes-in-pictures

 

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/19/
christina-broom-portraits-suffragettes-photography

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/mar/30/
museum-london-photo-collection-son-kipling-war-christina-broom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Francis Blake

Photographs (1912-1934)    USA

 

https://repository.duke.edu/dc/blake 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

William Hope    UK    1863-1933

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/oct/29/
haunted-photographs-william-hope-halloween

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard J. Arnold    USA    1856-1929

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Kearton    UK    1862-1928

 

Richard and Cherry Kearton,

working in the 1890s,

were possibly the world's

first professional

wildlife photographers.

 

Starting at home

in the village of Thwaite

in north Yorkshire

with a cheap box camera,

they managed to capture

some of the finest

early pictures

of birds in their nests,

insects, and mammals.

 

But having no telephoto

lenses or fast film,

they had to lug around

massive plate glass cameras

and devise ever more

bizarre ways to get close

to their shy quarries.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/06/
wildlife-photography-pioneers-attenborough-camera

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/06/
wildlife-photography-pioneers-attenborough-camera

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

George Edward Anderson    USA    1860-1928

 

George Edward Anderson

differed from

many of the world's

great documentary photographers

in that he served

for four years as a bishop

of the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints

and spent a stretch

as a missionary in England.

 

But overall he shared

the hallmark characteristics:

toiling in obscurity,

strained family life,

unwavering vision

and a poverty-inducing

obsession for his subject

and the act of photographing.

 

Photography came of age

at the same time as Mormonism

— and they moved west together.

 

Anderson's mentor,

Charles Roscoe Savage,

settled in Utah

a little ahead of the arrival

of William Henry Jackson

and the other Western

survey photographers.

http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/04/01/
135023986/frontier-utah-as-seen-by-mormon-bishop-documentary-photographer

 

 

http://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2011/04/01/
135023986/frontier-utah-as-seen-by-mormon-bishop-documentary-photographer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Griffith "Jack" London    USA    1876-1916

 

(born John Griffith Chaney)

 

Jack London

(...)

was famous for novels,

like the “The Call of the Wild,”

which were based

on his adventures,

trekking through the Klondike

or sailing the South Pacific.

 

He was the archetype

of the macho writer

— before Ernest Hemingway —

having been,

among other things, a Socialist,

a hobo, a sailor,

a war correspondent

and an oyster pirate.

 

(...)

 

Although he went on

to become a prolific writer,

he was also an avid photographer.

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/
rarely-seen-photos-by-jack-london/

 

 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/
rarely-seen-photos-by-jack-london/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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