R.I.P to the legendary Bill Cunningham

R.I.P to the legendary Bill Cunningham and his blue coat... He kept it real before keeping it real existed. A true photographer!

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RIP Fan Ho /1931-2016/

RIP.
"Master photographer Fan Ho died of pneumonia on Sunday, June 19th, 2016, at a hospital in San Jose, California. He was 84 years old."

One Person who has won more than 280 International awards right from the 1956, it cant be none other than Fan Ho. A fellow of almost all of the leading Photographic Societies in the world.

He was a versatile artist trying his hands on film making and many other mediums. He was born in Shanghai, China in 1937. It was the Rolleiflex camera gifted by his father which was used in his early days. He developed his pictures in the bathtub. It was a gallery owner who brought Fan’s work to limelight.

© Fan Ho

 

 

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Saul Leiter, Photographer Who Captured New York’s Palette, Dies at 89

Saul Leiter at his apartment in the East Village in May.

By MARGALIT FOX

Published: November 27, 2013

“Lots of people we think of as the famous photographers, particularly American photographers of the time, their photos are about something, quite overtly,” Mr. Leach, the filmmaker, said in an interview on Wednesday. “Saul’s were much more oblique than that.”

Saul Leiter, courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

"Street Scene," from 1959.

Unplanned and unstaged, Mr. Leiter’s photographs are slices fleetingly glimpsed by a walker in the city. People are often in soft focus, shown only in part or absent altogether, though their presence is keenly implied. Sensitive to the city’s found geometry, he shot by design around the edges of things: vistas are often seen through rain, snow or misted windows. 

“A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,” Mr. Leiter says in “In No Great Hurry.” 

Saul Leiter, courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

"Dog in Doorway, Paterson," from 1952.

“So many photographers, they go out of their way to publicize themselves and to search out success,” he added. “Saul never did it. He photographed because he loved taking photographs.” 

In the interview with Photographers Speak, Mr. Leiter set his role as a photographer against the backdrop of far more vital human events. 

“I am not immersed in self-admiration,” he said. “When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don’t have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.”

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R.I.P. Saul Leiter (1923-2013)

Snow, 1958 © Saul Leiter
Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery

Great photographer, a true original, and a good person...