John Dominis

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John Frank Michael Dominis (born June 27, 1921 in Los Angeles , † December 30, 2013 in New York City ) was an American documentary photographer , war correspondent and photojournalist .

Life

John Dominis was born in 1921 as the youngest of four children of Paul and Mamie Ostoja Dominis, who immigrated from the Balkans to the USA.

He studied film studies at the University of Southern California . In 1943 he finished his training and joined the United States Air Force . After the war he worked as a freelance photographer for various journals and magazines such as B. Life . In 1950 he volunteered as a war photographer in the Korean War . He later also worked in Southeast Asia , America , Africa and Europe . Dominis accompanied six Olympic Games as a photographer. His photo, taken at the 1968 Olympic Games , of the two African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos , who protested against the discrimination of the African-American population with their black-gloved fists , the symbol of the black power movement, became particularly well-known .

Dominis also photographed for Life magazine during the Vietnam War and reported on the Woodstock Festival . In the mid-1970s, he became the photo editor for People magazine . From 1978 to 1982 he also worked for Sports Illustrated . He shot numerous photos of the actors Steve McQueen and Frank Sinatra , which were often taken in private and later published as photo books. Together with Giuliano Bugialli , several books about Italian cuisine were created , for which Dominis, as a food photographer, created the pictures.

In John Loengard's book LIFE Photographers: What They Saw Dominis reported on the genesis of his picture A leopard about to kill a baboon , in which a leopard attacks a baboon. The picture was taken in Botswana in 1966 , where a hunter for Dominis released the captured leopard near baboons . Most baboons quickly fled to trees. One baboon, however, turned around and attacked the leopard, who shrank back briefly, but in the next moment killed the baboon. After it became known that the animal's death was deliberately accepted for the picture, Dominis was criticized. Dominis emphasized that the methods of animal photography had changed considerably since the 1960s and that he would no longer use such methods today.

He died of a heart condition on December 30, 2013 in his Manhattan apartment at the age of 92. He left a daughter, two sons and seven grandchildren.

Works (selection)

  • Maitland Armstrong Edey, John Dominis: The cats of Africa. Time-life Books, 1968, 1st edition, OCLC 452158
  • Giuliano Bugialli, John Dominis: Giuliano Bugialli's Foods of Italy. Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1984, 1st edition, ISBN 978-094143-452-2
  • Giuliano Bugialli, John Dominis: Foods of Sicily and Sardinia and the Smaller Islands. Rizzoli, 2002, ISBN 978-084782-502-8
  • Richard B. Stolley, John Dominis: Sinatra: An Intimate Portrait of a Very Good Year. Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2002, ISBN 978-158479-246-8
  • John Dominis: Steve McQueen: Photographs by John Dominis. Munich, Schirmer Mosel, 2009, 1st edition, ISBN 978-382960-412-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c John Dominis, a Star Photographer for Life Magazine, Dies at 92 at nytimes.com, accessed January 1, 2014
  2. ↑ Olympic Athletes Who Took a Stand ( Memento of the original dated November 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Smithsonian Magazine , August 2008  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smithsonianmag.com
  3. ^ A b The Leopard and the Baboon: Anatomy of a Classic (Staged) LIFE Photo at LIFE.com, accessed November 13, 2013
  4. ↑ The truth about this famous animal photo at welt.de, accessed on, accessed on November 13, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Dominis, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dominis, John Frank Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary photographer, war correspondent, and photojournalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2013
Place of death New York City