Stan Stearns, the man best known for his iconic picture of John Kennedy Jr. saluting his father's coffin in 1963, passed away from cancer at the age of 76. Born in 1935, Stearns first began working as a photographer at the Capitol newspaper when he was 16. He later worked as an Air Force photographer and for United Press International before setting up his own photography studio in Annapolis, taking wedding pictures, portraits and...

Eleanor Callahan, the wife and muse for photographer Harry Callahan, died after a bout with cancer at the age of 95. Known for her jet-black hair and curvaceous frame, Eleanor was photographed hundreds of times by her husband between the years of 1941 and his death in 1999. Harry's most notable shot of Eleanor shows her...

Two weeks after he won first prize in the 2012 World Press Photo contest, French photojournalist Rémi Ochlik was killed by rocket fire during a Feb. 22 military assault on the town of Homs, Syria. He was 28.

Ochlik's passion for photography began when his grandfather gave him an Olympus OM-1 film camera. After graduating from high school, he went to Paris to study photography at...

Often called the grande dame of postwar photojournalism, Eve Arnold passed away in January at the age of 99.

Arnold first fell in love with photography after her boyfriend gave her a $40 Rolleicord and insisted she learn how to use it.

Her best-known work includes...

Getty Images photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket while covering the forefront of Libyan rebel combat this past April. He was 41 years old.

Throughout his career, Hondros was often entrenched in the center of international conflicts, working at sites in...

Brian Lanker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his black-and-white photo essay on childbirth in 1973, passed away on March 13 at the age of 63.

Lanker’s photojournalism career began with small-town newspapers, including The Phoenix Gazette, which he joined at the age of 18, and The Topeka Capital-Journal...

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...