SHEPARD SHERBELL

SHERBELL--Shepard,

photographer and photo journalist, born New York City, 1944. Died of heart failure August 3, 2018 at Vassar Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. His wide-ranging interests included Soviet Era Russia, rock music, American politics and the lives of ordinary working people. In 1960s London he photographed musicians including the Beatles, The Who, Keith Moon, Cat Stevens, Jimi Hendrix, Badfinger, the Rolling Stones, Deep Purple, Frankie Valli, Humble Pie and Grand Funk Railroad. In the mid 70s, Sherbell moved to Washington and became a photojournalist covering the White House and Capitol Hill. He was the principal photographer for several editions of the Almanac of American Politics. He covered several Republican and Democratic national conventions. Sherbell traveled extensively, covering conflicts and news stories in Grenada, Libya, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Moldovia, Lithuania, Moscow, Hamburg, Paris, Rome, Ukraine, Haiti, Iran. He lived in the Soviet Union from 1991-1993. His book Soviets: Pictures from the End of the USSR was published by Yale University Press in 2001. On 9/11/2011 Sherbell was living in Manhattan, near the World Trade Center. The photographs he took that day were published all over the world. Hundreds of his photographs can be seen on the website of Sherbell's agency, Getty Images. Sherbell is survived by his sisters Rhoda Sherbell-Honig of Westbury, NY and Jeannine Oldak of Warrington, PA. Married and divorced twice, Shepard Sherbell had no children.