Obituary

Ron Galella (1931 – 2022)

Ron Galella, patron saint of peeping toms, is dead, age 91. . "My idea of a good picture is one…

2 years ago

Iran Before the Revolution

Briefly in the 1970s, voluptuous Forouzan represented a liberated Middle Eastern womanhood, the idea which had been extinguished since.

8 years ago

Needle Park | Bill Eppridge

In February 1965, LIFE magazine published an extraordinary photo essay on two New York City heroin addicts, John and Karen.

11 years ago

Neil Armstrong (1930 – 2012)

Neil Armstrong, a modern explorer and (more importantly for us at IP) the first photographer on the Moon, is dead,…

12 years ago

Martine Franck (1938 – 2012)

Martine Franck, Magnum photographer and the second wife of the late Henri Cartier-Bresson, is dead, aged 74.  In Contact Theory,…

12 years ago

Smoking Beagles, 1974

It was not her coinage but Mary Beith, who died last month, provided an memorable photo behind the phrase, "Smoking…

12 years ago

Stan Stearns (1935 – 2012)

Stan Stearns, who took the definitive photograph at John F. Kennedy's funeral, has died, aged 76. Many photographers were in front…

12 years ago

Lillian Bassman (1917 – 2012)

Lillian Bassman, a forgotten doyenne of ethereal black-and-white fashion photography of the 60s, has died, aged 94. In 1969, when…

12 years ago

Antony Barrington-Brown (1927-2012)

Antony Barrington-Brown, who captured the first pictures of Watson and Crick with their original model of the DNA double helix, has…

12 years ago

Photography — 2011 in Review

Iconic Photos bid fond farewells to those we lost in 2011. The big photography news of the year was deaths…

13 years ago