Thomas Frank Martin, a Seattle-based photographer known in the Pacific Northwest region for his large-format printmaking, passed away in December.

On the forefront of technology in the digital print age, Martin's store, Western Photographics, was one of the first companies in Seattle to offer digital scanning and printing services. Throughout his career, he was...

A well-known advocate for poor and underprivileged people in America, social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin died in January at the age of 101.

Influenced by photographers such as Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, he bought his first camera in 1942 and began to take stark black-and-white images as a hobby.

Rogovin began his career as an optometrist, but his compassion for the disadvantaged inhabitants of his....

Seattle-based action, sports and commercial photographer John Terence Turner died this past May. The cause of death was ruled to be suicide.

An avid adventurer and former Peace Corps recruit, Turner spent many years outdoors capturing colorful, on-site images of sports including rock climbing, cycling and sailing.

A former student at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, Turner later spent time in the...

Postwar jazz photographer Herman Leonard died of leukemia in August at the age of 87.

Born in Allentown, Pa., in 1923, Leonard took his first photographs as a child and later studied photography at Ohio University. After school, he apprenticed for Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh before opening his own New York City studio at age 25.Although Leonard shot many portraits in New York and Paris between...

Photographer Jim Marshall, the man who famously captured Jimi Hendrix as he set his guitar on fire at a live concert, passed away in March at the age of 74.

Throughout his nearly 50-year career as a music photographer, Marshall captured decades of iconic rock images of artists like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin. Marshall also photographed momentous events in rock 'n' roll history, such as the Woodstock Festival in 1969, the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967 and the final Beatles concert at...

Irving Penn, the man whose stark, minimalist black-and-white fashion images adorned the cover of Vogue for many years, died in October 2009 at the age of 92.

Born in 1917, Penn was a renowned celebrity fashion and portrait photographer. Beginning his artistic career as a painter and designer at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, he quickly transitioned into photography when he was offered a position as a fashion photographer for Vogue in the 1940s. Within a short period of time, Penn's modernist portraiture style landed him a...

Fine-art photographer Larry Sultan, who was known for his deconstructive images of day-to-day life, died in December 2009 at the age of 63.

Born in New York in 1946, Sultan began college as a political science student but ended up receiving a master’s degree in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1973.

Most notably, Sultan’s work included “Evidence,” a project he worked on with fellow art student Mike Mandel that decontextualized photographs from business, industry and government photo archives; “Pictures from Home,” a....

Portrait and landscape photographer Evelyn Hofer, best known for her travel photography in the 1950s and 1960s, died in November 2009 at the age of 87.

Born in Germany in 1922, Hofer moved with her family to Mexico during World War II and to New York after the war ended. Hofer also spent time in Zurich, where she completed an apprenticeship and began a career as a fashion photographer.

She did not spend much time in fashion, however, preferring a more documentary portraiture style...