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Horst Faas dies at 79; Pulitzer Prize-winning combat photographer
As chief of photo operations for the Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was...
Tags: Arts, Olympic Games, Photography, Journalism, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
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Eve Arnold dies at 99; pioneering photojournalist
Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of Hollywood celebrities, has died. She was 99.
Arnold died...Tags: Arts, Periodicals, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arts, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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The Reading Life: Geoff Dyer on 'The Missing of the Somme'
Jacket CopyGeoff Dyer talks to David L. Ulin about form and the novelistic impulse, war and forgetting and his book "The Missing of the Somme."... -
William T. Vollmann and Susan Meiselas talk photography
Jacket CopyWilliam T. Vollmann and Susan Meiselas talked photography Tuesday night in Los Angeles.... -
Hondros dead covering war, which he saw as his calling
The Big PictureChris Hondros, 41, the superb photographer who took some of the most wrenching war photos of our time, has been confirmed dead in a hospital in Misurata, Libya. The same explosion had earlier Wednesday claimed the life of photographer and...... -
Libya blast kills photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros
Reporting from Misurata, Libya, and Los Angeles -- Barely two months ago, combat photographer Tim Hetherington sent out a tweet from the Academy Awards ceremony, where his Afghanistan war film "Restrepo" was up for the best documentary trophy.
"At the...Tags: U.S. Army, Hospitals and Clinics, Journalism, Entertainment, Afghanistan
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Book Review: 'Otherwise Known as the Human Condition' by Geoff Dyer
Los Angeles Times Book CriticOtherwise Known as the Human Condition Selected Essays and Reviews Geoff Dyer Graywolf: 422 pp., $18 paper "Almost as soon as I began writing for magazines and newspapers," Geoff Dyer tells us in the introduction to "Otherwise Known as the Human...Tags: Arts, Duke Ellington, Photography, Journalism, Literature
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Dennis Stock dies at 81; friend and photographer of James Dean
Dennis Stock, a photographer best known for his iconic Life magazine photo of film legend James Dean walking through a rainy Times Square in a dark overcoat, has died. He was 81.
Stock, who was diagnosed with colon and liver cancer a few weeks ago and...Tags: Nicholas Ray, Periodicals, Folklore and Mythology, Hospitals and Clinics, Colon
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Magnum Photos Collection opens to the public
Culture MonsterIn the past, it hasn't always been easy getting up close and personal with valuable photographic prints from masters such as Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Now the general public can get an intimate look at works by some of...... -
'Exiles in the Garden' by Ward Just
Exiles in the Garden
A Novel
Ward Just
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 280 pp., $25
Ward Just left an active life as a journalist, serving as a distinguished reporter in Washington and Vietnam, to dedicate himself to fiction. Over the last 39 years he...Tags: Photography, Journalism, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Hudson River, Czech Republic
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Carolyn Cole
PROFESSIONAL Los Angeles Times, since 1994 Has captured images of national and international events over the past 12 years, covering assignments in Africa, the Middle East, California and New York. Sacramento Bee Staff photographer, 1992-94. Freelance...Tags: Photography, Education, Iraq, Colleges and Universities, El Paso
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Hugh Van Es dies at 67; Dutch photojournalist took famous Saigon evacuation photo
From Associated PressHugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 -- a group of people scaling a stairway to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop -- died Friday morning in Hong Kong, his wife said....Tags: Police Investigations, Hospitals and Clinics, Photography, Newspaper and Magazine, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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