Four famous photographers dead within the same week

Four well-known photographers have passed away within a period of one week between 3rd and 9th September this year.

Peter Lindbergh was among the foremost fashion photographers of our day, working for titles such as Stern, Vogue and the Pirelli calender, twice. He was credited, together with Karl Lagerfeld among others, with creating the supermodel phenomenon, crucially by way of his group portrait of Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Tatjana Patitz, Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington for the January 1990 issue of British Vogue (shown below). He passed away on September 3, aged 74 and still working. (Lagerfeld passed away earlier this year.)

The British Vogue cover photographed by Lindbergh that defined supermodels, the 90s, and became a template for similar group portraits.

More pictures by Peter Lindbergh

 

Charlie Cole, an American photojournalist, was one of five photographers who captured images of Tank Man during the Tiananmen Square protests. He passed away on September 5, aged 64.

The photograph that has become known as “Tank Man”, as shot by Charlie Cole.

More pictures by Charlie Cole

 

Robert Frank was a Swiss-Jewish photographer (but apparently no close relation of Anne Frank’s) who published The Americans, by some considered a work connected with the Beat generation, of whom he may be considered a member through being an acquaintance of Jack Kerouac, who wrote an introduction to the US edition of Frank’s work, and Allen Ginsberg. In France, where The Americans was published first, it was juxtaposed with texts by Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck. He passed away September 9, aged 94.

The photograph used as the cover image for The Americans.

More pictures from The Americans

 

Fred Herzog, having lost his parents to typhoid and cancer during World War II, like Frank also left central Europe, in Herzog’s case Germany, after the war. In Canada, he became a noted photographer of working class people. He was employed as a medical photographer and achieved recognition as a pioneer of artistic colour photography. He also died on September 9, aged 88.

Self Portrait, 1961

More pictures by Fred Herzog