J. Jeffrey Albertson

ALBERTSON, J. Jeffrey Professional photographer and publisher whose work spanned four decades and included a number of musicians, died recently at his home in Fort Lee, NJ. Born on Sept. 13, 1948 to Frank and Marion Albertson, Jeff attended Reading, Mass. High School, McGill University and Boston University. It was while he was at BU that the Boston Globe hired him as a photographer. After graduation, in the 1970s, Jeff became a fixture in the Boston media world, serving as photo editor of the Boston Phoenix, co-owner and associate publisher of the Real Paper and Boston-based stringer for Rolling Stone, People Magazine and Boston Magazine. His subjects included John Lennon, Mohammed Ali, Elvis Presley Bruce Springsteen, Abbie Hoffman and Fay Dunaway. He also shot a number of album covers, including those of Boston and the Cars' platinum-award-winning "Candy-O." In the 1980s, he moved to New York City, where he met his wife Charlene Laino and became photo editor and then vice president of the Medical Tribune News Group, whose many outlets included the New York Times Syndicated Medical Tribune News Service. In the 1990s, Jeff was among the first to realize the potential of using the Internet as an outlet for news and helped to launch several Internet sites dedicated to health coverage. He is represented by the Corbis Agency, whose Web site displays many of his photos. Intelligent, with quick wit and a magnificent sense of humor, Jeff lived life on his own terms and will be sorely missed. He is survived by his wife, Charlene Laino, of Fort Lee, NJ; his sister and brother-in-law Kris and Alan Stata, of Clovis, New Mexico; his father-in-law & mother-in-law, Charles and Eileen Laino & a multitude of friends