U.S. Photographer Mydans, Pioneer at Life, Dies
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Magazine photojournalist Carl Mydans, a pioneer of photo essays at Life magazine in the 1930s, has died at age 97.
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Photojournalist Eddie Adams took careful portraits of U.S. presidents and world figures. But his best known work is one that was sudden and unglamorous: the 1968 killing of a Viet Cong captive in Vietnam.
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âNotes on Marie Menkenâ shines a welcome ray of light on a largely forgotten figure in the American avant-garde film scene.
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NEW YORK - Richard Avedon, who chronicled the famous with his camera and elevated fashion photography to a 20th century art form, died early Friday.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a giant of cancer research who discovered that tumors generate a network of tiny blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74, Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.
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Military photographer who had been filming US air assault among seven who died.
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The man who introduced transcendental meditation to the West, who briefly became a guru to the Beatles and other pop musicians and who built a multimillion-dollar global business based on teaching people how to pause and close their eyes twice a day, died Feb. 5 at his home in Vlodrop, Netherlands....
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On November fifth, 1942, American showman George M. Cohan died in New York at age 64.
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The entire archive of New York photographer Diane Arbus -- known for her images of dwarfs, nudists and carnival performers -- has found a home at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The Metropolitan Museumâs collection features some of the great 20th-century photographers who devoted themselves to capturing quiet, overlooked everyday phenomena.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the  computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most  colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Al Shugart, 76, who pioneered the multibillion-dollar computer hard drive industry and was one of the more colorful characters of Silicon Valley, died Dec. 12 at California's Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula of complications from heart surgery he had six weeks earlier.
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Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76.
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Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.
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He's well into his 80s now, but the work continues for avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas. His latest project: Producing one film each day in 2007, blending new footage with his enormous archive of film shot during the heyday of the underground New York art scene. A Wired News interview by Jason Silverman.
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Photography - Classic images by a Swedish pioneer in photography , on view through October 17, 2004.
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In 1911, Edward Weston looked through a camera and framed a small boy just to the right of center before he tripped the shutter, creating the kind of natural light portrait that made him famous.