Michihiro Yamaki, 1933-2012
Michihiro Yamaki of Sigma being presented with the Golden Photokina pin by Oliver P. Kuhrt, Executive Vice President of Koelnmesse GmbH, on the opening day of the CP+ Camera and Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama, Japan, last February 9th (photo...
Awwww…
Doppelgang, 2001–2012 There are few things in life better than a good dog. Years ago, my mother decided to try a small dog in her small Georgetown home, so she went to a breeder and got a miniature long-haired silver-dapple...
Eve Arnold 19122012
Eve Arnold on the Set of Becket, 1963. Photo by Robert Penn/Magnum Eve Arnold, the first woman to become a Magnum photojournalist, died last Wednesday at the age of 99. An American expatriate, she lived in Great Britain for many...
Willard S. Boyle, Digital Camera Inventor, Dies
A moment of appreciation for Willard S. Boyle, who passed away on May 7th. Dr. Boyle, a Canadian, with his co-laureate, American George E. Smith, won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physics for the invention, at Bell Labs, of the...
Brian Lanker 1947-2011
Brian Lanker, Katherine Dunham, from the book I Dream A World The NPPA has let us all know that Brian Lanker, a quintessential newspaper photojournalist (I always liked this shot), died suddenly yesterday evening, after learning only a few days...
Frank W. Buckles, 1901-2011 (OT)
Frank Buckles as a 16-year-old recruit in 1917 Frank Buckles died yesterday. He was the very last survivor of the 4.7 million people who enlisted in the U.S. military in 1917–18 for the Great War, the "War to End All...
Milton Rogovin 1909-2011
Anne and Milton Rogovin, 2001, by Harvey Wang I've just been reached by the news that the great leftist photographer Milton Rogovin died today, just past his 101st birthday. He was a wonderful, kind, compassionate man who lived a life...
Geoffrey Crawley, 1926-2010
Generations of British photographers have lost a friend, mentor, and fellow enthusiast. For decades the name of Geoffrey Crawley has been hard to miss in photographic circles. He was associated with The British Journal of Photography from the early 1960s...
A Death in the Community
"Our autobiography is written in our contact sheets, and our opinion of the world in our selects." —Bill Pierce "Photographers" make up a far-flung community. We come from all over globe, are of almost every age, and have very little...
A Bad Day
The Herman Leonard exhibit last fall at Lincoln Center. Photo by Brian Smith. Saturday was a bad day for jazz fans, and photographers. We lost Abbey Lincoln—and Herman Leonard. Here's Mr. Leonard's obituary, from the L.A. Times. Here's Ms. Lincoln's,...
Joe Deal 1947-2010
I'm sorry to report that Joe Deal, of Providence, Rhode Island, who we last talked about here, died of his illness last friday. Joe's pictures are elegant, analytical, accurate, and austere, with elements of abstraction, usually showing the raw encroachment...
Traces
Joe Deal: I just learned today that the fine photographer Joe Deal is very sick. I last published one of Joe's pictures here in this post, about the New Topographics movement and book. It's hardly the whole story of his...
