RIP Thomas Hoepker

[filmtwit]

Unfortunately passed away a few days ago from Alzheimers.

Thomas Hoepker, Who Captured an Indelible 9/11 Image, Dies at 88

His photograph of five young people lounging on the Brooklyn waterfront as smoke engulfed Manhattan mesmerized viewers and stirred controversy.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Out to Lunch]

filmtwit, thanks for sharing.



For German speakers, there is also a good clip from Steidl:

 

[p.giannakis]

I admired his work of the DDR

 

[Zuiko-logist]

I wasn’t aware of the photographer. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Freakscene]

88 years is a long life, RIP.