Photographer Max Nash, who covered conflicts in Southeast Asia and the Middle East and helped nurture a new generation of female photojournalists during more than 40 years with The Associated Press, died Friday after collapsing at home. He was 77.
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“He was never discouraged,” his brother-in law, Tom St. Thomas, said. “And if something bad happened, he always found a way to make it OK.” EAST BRIDGEWATER – Ron Wilson had a deft touch when it came to light, contrast, perspective and framing.
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Ms. Washington, the first African-American female staff photographer for The New York Times, knew how to keep her cool even in tense situations. Ruby Washington was an intensely private person. Her daughter, Courtney, said she had no idea her mother was the first African-American woman to become a staff photographer at The New York Times.
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Erich Lessing, a self-taught photojournalist who fled the Nazi annexation of Austria as a teenager in 1939 but returned after World War II to document Europe’s political and cultural rebirth, died on Aug. 29 in Vienna. He was 95.
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Former Associated Press photojournalist Kim Chonkil, whose images captured South Korea’s turbulent transition from dictatorship to democracy, has died. He was 89. Kim’s son, Kim Kuchul, said he died in New York on Thursday after
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