Photographer Richard Avedon Dies at 81
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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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One of the two fire crew killed in a blaze at an East Sussex fireworks depot was a retired officer and photographer.
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Edward Behr, a noted British foreign correspondent and writer who penned books on history, good eating and his career as a journalist, has died in Paris, his family said Sunday. He was 81.
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Director Robert Altman, who introduced an innovative ensemble style of filmmaking in such works as "MASH," "Gosford Park" and "Nashville," has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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A major retrospective opens on the photographer often hailed as the greatest of the 20th century
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Ahmet Ertegun, who helped define American music as the founder of Atlantic Records, a label that popularized the gritty R&amp;B of Ray Charles, the classic soul of Aretha Franklin and the British rock of the Rolling Stones, has died, his spokesman said. He was 83.
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(Corrects headline and paragraph 2 to show cameraman died, not reporter)
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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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LONDON, AFP) - Veteran BBC presenter and humorist Alan Coren has died from cancer aged 69, the BBC announced Friday.
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An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq were killed in Baghdad on Thursday in what police said was American military action and which witnesses described as a helicopter attack.
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American photojournalist Eddie Adams,  whose searing picture of the execution of a communist guerrilla  during the Vietnam War defined his career, died on Sunday aged  71, U.S. media reported.
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Arts & entertainment: For 60 years, photographer Jane Bown has been capturing the world in her iconic portraits and heartfelt everyday images. Germaine Greer introduces her work.
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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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Photographer Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died Sunday. He was 94.
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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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Best-selling French novelist Francoise Sagan dies at the age of 69 after suffering a pulmonary embolism.
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Earl Ubell, 80, a print and broadcast medical and science journalist who covered the leading health and science breakthroughs of the post-war age in a lively and effective style, died May 30 at Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He had Parkinson's disease and dementia.