United States.- The famous fashion photographer of The New York Times, Bill Cunningham, died at age 87 on Saturday.
Cunningham, a living legend of fashion photography in the street, he invented, was hospitalized after suffering an attack, said the daily, which described it as an “atypical cultural anthropologist”.
Eyes lurking, a little bent, always with a blue jacket and a camera until recently Similarly, around the neck, Cunningham had a passion: photographing style
This discreet man, born in Massachusetts in 1920, knew see before anyone “what should be trend in six months. “estimated Anna Wintour, editor in chief of Vogue in the United States, a documentary about the photographer,” Bill Cunningham New York “.
Man encyclopedic knowledge, this photographer mastered the art of discovering trends major, even avant-garde, on the street, on stage or in worldly holidays.
“you have to let the street tell you what the story is,” he told AFP in 2014 that also he said “not being good photographer”.
“Do not have preconceived ideas, get out and let the street speak to you,” added Cunningham, who began his career creating hats for New Yorkers high society.
a little history
in 1963, he worked at Chez Ninon, a sewing shop tailor, when Jackie Kennedy, a regular client, sent him a suit tailor red Dior before the funeral of her husband, President killed.
his first photographs of strangers, but also celebrities like the actress Greta Garbo in 1987, allowed him to get a regular column in the New York Times, “On the street” ( “On the street”), where each week exposed the latest trends. Men in skirts, leopard, blouses day and night, a new palette of colors or prints.
“Your company was sought after by the rich and powerful in the world of fashion, and yet was always one of the kindest, sweetest and humble men I have ever met, “said the director of the New York newspaper, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., who added.” we lost a legend “
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