Missing two photographers
When I edited Kodak's now-defunct online magazine, I wanted to do an occasional story on great photographers of the Life magazine era who worked mainly in black and white. The two I focused on were Loomis Dean and Fred McDarrah.
Mr. Dean captured the famous photo of the Andrea Doria cruise ship as it sank. Much of his career was spent with Life and, before that, the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, as a PR photographer. He had his own small elephant for publicity photo purposes. I interviewed him in the early 2000s, at his home in Venice, Florida, using then state-of-the-art digital audio tape. The tape survives. But we couldn't come to terms over use of his images, for which he owned the rights. So the story never appeared online. Loomis died in 2005.
You can see some of Loomis' photos on the www.life.com website, or go here.
Fred W. McDarrah captured the Beat poet movement and Greenwich Village life in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Some of the earliest gay pride parade images in NYC came from Fred's camera. Later, he wrote a Photography Encyclopedia of Brooklyn
Yellow Pages dimensions. Fred's imagery is online here. You can buy the encyclopedia used for a few bucks here. Fred died in 2007, a day after his 81st birthday.
I ran across Fred later in life, in an online feature story published by the East Hampton Star, on Long Island. They've since taken down the web page where you could view the story.
Mr. Dean captured the famous photo of the Andrea Doria cruise ship as it sank. Much of his career was spent with Life and, before that, the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, as a PR photographer. He had his own small elephant for publicity photo purposes. I interviewed him in the early 2000s, at his home in Venice, Florida, using then state-of-the-art digital audio tape. The tape survives. But we couldn't come to terms over use of his images, for which he owned the rights. So the story never appeared online. Loomis died in 2005.
You can see some of Loomis' photos on the www.life.com website, or go here.
Fred W. McDarrah captured the Beat poet movement and Greenwich Village life in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Some of the earliest gay pride parade images in NYC came from Fred's camera. Later, he wrote a Photography Encyclopedia of Brooklyn
Yellow Pages dimensions. Fred's imagery is online here. You can buy the encyclopedia used for a few bucks here. Fred died in 2007, a day after his 81st birthday.I ran across Fred later in life, in an online feature story published by the East Hampton Star, on Long Island. They've since taken down the web page where you could view the story.
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