Lawrence Fried, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lawrence Fried

American journalist

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1926

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: photographer, photojournalist, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Lawrence Fried

  • Lawrence Fried (June 28, 1926 – 1983) was an American photo-journalist.
  • He was born to first-generation Jewish Hungarian and Russian parents in New York, N.
  • Y.
  • Fried's work appeared in Newsweek, The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times, Vogue, Collier's, and Parade Magazine.[1] with over 70 covers for Newsweek [2].
  • He was the recipient of the Photographer of the Year award by the Overseas Press Club, the Outstanding Service to ASMP award and the Benjamin Franklin Award [3]. Fried learned photography while serving in World War II.
  • After the war he attended the University of Miami, then moved to New York City.
  • In the 1950s and early 1960s he worked through the PIX, Inc.
  • alongside friends Cornell Capa, Ed Feingersh, George Karger, and Hans Knopf.
  • There he began a 30-year career as a freelance photographer.
  • He was a three-term president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, a trade organization, and a founding partner of the Image Bank, which represents the work of 300 photographers.[5] The people and subjects that he photographed on multiple occasions range from Vietnam [6] to world leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek [7].
  • His photograph of Robert F.
  • Kennedy was chosen as the book cover of Kennedy's To Seek a Newer World [8].
  • While riding in the presidential motorcade covering Lyndon Johnson for the Saturday Evening Post [9] his car caught on fire and his leap—cameras flinging in the air—was captured on the front page of many major newspapers including The New York Daily News.[10] He photographed musicians, actors, and visual artists throughout his career.
  • Bette Midler [11], Stevie Wonder [12], Meryl Streep [13], Shirley MacLaine [14], Richard Serra [15], Joseph Kosuth [16], and Willem DeKooning [17], Audrey Hepburn.[19]

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