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This thread is to note those who have recently passed and have had an influenced society or just influenced your view toward the world. It could be an entertainer, scholar, statesman, politician or anyone you feel has added to your journey on this planet.
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Ozzie Sweet, Who Helped Define New Era of Photography, Dies at 94
"At the end of World War II, Ozzie Sweets picture of a friend posed as a German soldier surrendering appeared on the cover of Newsweek the magazine of news significance, as it billed itself then. Not a stratagem that would pass muster in contemporary journalism, but Mr. Sweet, who had apprenticed to the Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, appeared in a Cecil B. DeMille film and helped create promotional ads for the United States Army, found the art in photography to be in creating an image, not capturing one.
Mr. Sweet, who was 94 when he died Wednesday at his home in York Harbor, Me., took photographs that appeared on an estimated 1,800 magazine covers. He shot, it seemed, for everyone, from top-flight general-interest publications like Look and Colliers, to mens magazines like Argosy, to womens books like Family Circle, to myriad hunting and fishing publications (for which his deer and ducks were sometimes borrowed from a taxidermist), to photography magazines, recreation magazines (he shot a lot of young women on ski slopes and in bikinis on beaches) and health magazines.
Much of his best-known work was portraiture. For Newsweek, he produced images of Albert Einstein in his office, smiling at a joke about his shoes; Ingrid Bergman in a suit of armor, her costume for a Broadway play; and Bob Feller simulating his windup. He photographed Dwight D. Eisenhower as the president of Columbia University, Jimmy Durante with a butterfly perched on his famous schnozz (it was glued there), Jack Nicklaus in fake follow-through for Golf. He photographed Ernest Hemingways house in Key West, Fla., full of cats, for Cat Fancy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/s...otography-dies-at-94.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0
Ozzie Sweet, right, directs Jackie Robinson during a shoot for the October 1951 cover of Sport magazine.
Please note this thread is not for debate. It is solely to post and appreciate those who have touched or enriched our lives, individually or as a society.
I will start...
Ozzie Sweet, Who Helped Define New Era of Photography, Dies at 94
"At the end of World War II, Ozzie Sweets picture of a friend posed as a German soldier surrendering appeared on the cover of Newsweek the magazine of news significance, as it billed itself then. Not a stratagem that would pass muster in contemporary journalism, but Mr. Sweet, who had apprenticed to the Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum, appeared in a Cecil B. DeMille film and helped create promotional ads for the United States Army, found the art in photography to be in creating an image, not capturing one.
Mr. Sweet, who was 94 when he died Wednesday at his home in York Harbor, Me., took photographs that appeared on an estimated 1,800 magazine covers. He shot, it seemed, for everyone, from top-flight general-interest publications like Look and Colliers, to mens magazines like Argosy, to womens books like Family Circle, to myriad hunting and fishing publications (for which his deer and ducks were sometimes borrowed from a taxidermist), to photography magazines, recreation magazines (he shot a lot of young women on ski slopes and in bikinis on beaches) and health magazines.
Much of his best-known work was portraiture. For Newsweek, he produced images of Albert Einstein in his office, smiling at a joke about his shoes; Ingrid Bergman in a suit of armor, her costume for a Broadway play; and Bob Feller simulating his windup. He photographed Dwight D. Eisenhower as the president of Columbia University, Jimmy Durante with a butterfly perched on his famous schnozz (it was glued there), Jack Nicklaus in fake follow-through for Golf. He photographed Ernest Hemingways house in Key West, Fla., full of cats, for Cat Fancy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/s...otography-dies-at-94.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0
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Ozzie Sweet, right, directs Jackie Robinson during a shoot for the October 1951 cover of Sport magazine.
Please note this thread is not for debate. It is solely to post and appreciate those who have touched or enriched our lives, individually or as a society.