He was an American Photographer. He capitalized on his early success in fashion photography and expanded the realm of fine art. He also photographed patients of mental hospitals, the civil rights movement, protesters to the Vietnam war and the fall of the Berlin wall. He also created two famous portraits of The Beatles. His portraits are distinguished by their minimalist style where the person is looking squarely in the camera, posed in front of a sheer white background. He is also distinguished by his large prints, sometimes over three feet tall. He did large format portraits of drifters, miners, cowboys and others from W. US, and made it a best selling book and exhibit called, In the American West. he became a staff photographer for the New Yorker and has won many photography awards including the international center of photography master of photography award, the prix nadar and the royal photographic society 150th anniversary medal in 2003.
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