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...
Brian Duffy 1933-2010
Regular readers will recall our posts about Brian Duffy, one of the three leading lights of 1960s photography in Britain who later simply walked away from it all. We really only pointed to the excellent BBC video about him online,...
Artists Ain’t Saints: Jim Marshall, 1936-2010
By Ctein I'm feeling mildly discombobulated. I just found out an hour ago that Jim Marshall died in his sleep last night (Tuesday night) in his hotel room in New York City; he was there for another show opening and...
Peter Gowland 1916-2010
Agh, we've lost Peter Gowland. I just heard. Glamor photographer, camera inventor, all-around photographic raconteur, a fixture on the scene. I'd like to take this opportunity to re-publish a brief piece that our friend Oren Grad wrote for this site...
