ZUM TOD DES US-AMERIKANISCHEN FOTOGRAFEN BILL CUNNINGHAM
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26.06.2016 Der am 13. März 1929 in Boston geborene US-amerikanische Fotograf Bill Cunningham (Bild) ist am 25. Juni 2016 in New York City gestorben.
Bild: Bill Cunningham at Fashion Week, 2012 - Foto: Jiyang Chen - CC-Lizenz: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported - Zur Datei: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Cunningham_at_Fashion_Week_photographed_by_Jiyang_Chen.jpg
Bill Cunningham Looked Past the Runway to Capture Modern Identity
Since his death on Saturday, many of the memorials and hagiographies that have poured out over the internet have dubbed Bill (I can't call him Mr. Cunningham, as I've known him, and been squeezed up next to him on fashion show benches, for too long) the father of street style, and rightly so. Still, a more accurate way to think of him might be as someone who applied the tenets of visual journalism to fashion.
He began his career as a reporter, after all, and his photographs were simply another expression of the same discipline: They weren't filtered, air-brushed or staged.
Vanessa Friedman
In Memoriam: Bill Cunningham (1929 - 2016)
Bill Cunningham was an original. He is also irreplaceable. He rode his rickety bicycles around Manhattan, a hunting dog coursing, seeking, stalking his prey, then quickly and quietly bagging his prize, the image that told the story-on-the-wing he hadn't even known he was after until he saw it in full flight.
Michael Gross
http://time.com/4382965/bill-cunningham-in-memoriam/
Though Cunningham's work has appeared in the Times for years, his influence was felt even more pointedly over the past decade in the midst of the fashion blogging and street-style revolution, which minted stars out of editors and It Girls out of bloggers. As the throng outside fashion shows, parties, and benefits ballooned to a global pack of star photographers, Cunningham could reliably be seen leadings its ranks-even from the fringes where he could get his desired shot-up until the end.
Rachel Tashjian
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/06/bill-cunningham-fashion-photographer-dead-at-87
Legendary New York fashion and street photographer Bill Cunningham - who dropped out of Harvard, rode his bike everywhere and earned Anna Wintour's respect - dies aged 87
In der «New York Times» hatte er seit Jahrzehnten die wöchentliche Kolumne «On the Street», in der er die neusten Strassentrends abbildete und somit den New Yorkern ein Denkmal setzte. «Wir erinnern uns an Bills blaue Jacke und sein Fahrrad», schrieb Bürgermeister Bill de Blasio am Samstag. «Aber wir werden uns vor allem an das lebhafte und lebendige New York erinnern, das er in seinen Fotos einfing.»
kko / sda
http://www.derbund.ch/kultur/kunst/legendaerer-modefotograf-bill-cunningham-ist-tot/story/12740095
Mehr:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/on-the-street
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cunningham_(American_photographer)
