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Fred McDarrah - Village Photographer - 1926-2007

Fred McDarrah 1926-2007 photo by Janie Eisenberg (1978) 

Somehow this slipped past my radar, but one of the great photojournalists (and my silent hero) Fred McDarrah passed away on Nov 6th, a few hours after his 81st birthday.

McDarrah was the photographer for the Village Voice for decades, and he chronicled Greenwich Village during the beat and hippy periods. His work is iconic, and so many images we have in our minds about that time are branded in our brains in black and white.

Here's an obit in the VVoice by Tom Robbins: link

Some of McDarrah's iconic images are at the Steven Kasher gallery in NYC

The VVoice also has a slide show of his work. 

His books can be found here

Like the rest of that era, it's all slip-sliding away. 

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