#johnshearer

👏🏿📷#ArtIsAWeapon (swipe ⬅️) Honoring and remembering the trailblazing #Blackphotographer #photojournalist #JohnShearer, who captured these (and many other) truly iconic images. Mr. Shearer recently transitioned on June 22. ___________________ Reposted from @nytimes obituary: John Shearer, Who Photographed Tumultuous 1960s, Dies at 72. Mr. Shearer joined the staff of Look magazine at the age of 20, becoming one of the few black photographers at a major national publication. John Shearer was already a promising photographer at 16 when the photo director of Look magazine, who was preparing to cover John F. Kennedy’s funeral, invited him along to carry his bags. But when they arrived at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, the photo director instead handed him a press pass and told him, “Take pictures of people grieving.” Instinctively, Mr. Shearer worked his way up to a reviewing stand. Using a telephoto lens that his father had bought him for the occasion, he clicked the shutter just as the president’s toddler son, John Jr., raised his right hand in one of the most poignant salutes in American history. A moment later, Mr. Shearer was pulled from the stands by Secret Service agents. He fell to the ground, cracking his new lens. “But I had my picture,” he told Westchester Magazine in 2017. Other #photographers had the picture too. But Mr. Shearer’s was particularly striking. It was somewhat overexposed, so that it illuminated Jacqueline Kennedy’s face behind her black veil. Over the years it has become one of the most reproduced images of that memorable moment...His split-second artistry on the biggest story of the day catapulted Mr. Shearer to the forefront of photojournalists and led to a career creating indelible images of the 1960s and ′70s — of civil rights marches, race riots and the funeral of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Read full story: www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/arts/john-shearer-dead.html ___________________ 📷s reposted from The New York Times /The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images. First image: Mr. Shearer outside Attica where he documented the bloody 1971 uprising, #photographed by #BillRay #TraScapades #Photography https://www.instagram.com/p/BzY0WxJF_mW/?igshid=1klc5vf395rx4

@Adele in #GivenchyHauteCouture by @riccardotisci17 and #LorraineSchwartz #jewelry at the 2017 #GrammyAwards (📸 #SteveGranitz and #JohnShearer/#GettyImages) #AlbumOfTheYear #RecordOfTheYear #SongOfTheYear #BestPopSoloPerformance #BestPopVocalAlbum #25 #hello #winner #adele #grammys #givenchy #riccardotisci #redcarpet #bestdressed #queen #diva

@Adele in #GivenchyHauteCouture by @riccardotisci17 and #LorraineSchwartz #jewelry at the 2017 #GrammyAwards (📸 #SteveGranitz and #JohnShearer/#GettyImages) #AlbumOfTheYear #RecordOfTheYear #SongOfTheYear #BestPopSoloPerformance #BestPopVocalAlbum #25 #hello #winner #adele #grammys #givenchy #riccardotisci #redcarpet #bestdressed #queen #diva

#NicoleKidman in #Gucci, #StuartWeitzman shoes, #Omega watch, and #FredLeighton #jewelry at the 2017 #ScreenActorsGuild Awards (📸 #DimitriosKambouris and #JohnShearer/#GettyImages) #sag #sagawards #lion #nicole #redcarpet #bestdressed #tiffany #celebritycouple #awardseason #keith #keithurban

#ClaireFoy in #Valentino, #JimmyChoo shoes, and #TiffanyAndCo #jewelry at the 2017 #ScreenActorsGuild Awards (📸 #JohnShearer and #FrazerHarrison/#GettyImages) #sag #sagawards #redcarpet #bestdressed #awardseason #tiffany #winner #thecrown

#India Wells #golf with Thor #johnshearer (Taken with Instagram)