Sad News. Stanley Greene has died.

[sevres_babylone]

One of the greatest photojournalists. I knew him only for the Chechnya work, but as the NY Times obit shows, he was so much more.
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017...ller-of-uncomfortable-truths-dies-at-68/?_r=0

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I didn't know he was in Russian White House at the same time I worked nearby and conflict happened. My respect to him.

 

[LukeBanks]

In Black Passport, Greene, quoting Alexey Brodovitch, likened the life of a war photographer to that of a butterfly. “[If] we’re lucky it can last for eight years,” he wrote. “I think you can only keep positive for eight years. If you stay at it longer than that, you turn… I see it in myself, and I see it in all my friends and colleagues. We are all victims of post-traumatic stress and deal with it in different ways. And we’re not beautiful butterflies anymore. We’ve become moths. And what a moth does, it flies into the flame.”

http://time.com/stanley-greene/

 

[bucs]

RIP. Just saw his work now.

 

[sevres_babylone]

The Online Photographer has just posted an interesting commentary by Jim Hughes about the intersection between Greene and Gene Smith, including an excerpt from his Smith biography that was edited out at the time (presumably for length reasons):
http://theonlinephotographer.typepa...hes-on-stanley-greene-and-w-eugene-smith.html