Stuart Heydinger

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Stuart Heydinger

Stuart Heydinger (born May 5, 1927 in Kingston upon Thames ; † October 6, 2019 in Hude (Oldenburg) , Germany ) was a British photographer who worked around the world in the 50s and 60s and who settled in northern Germany in 1979.

biography

Heydinger was born as the third son in Kingston upon Thames. The father was a professional soldier, the family lived in Gibraltar until 1930 . After three years at Catterick Camp, Yorkshire and another two years at Shorncliffe Camp near Folkestone, the family settled in Folkestone .

Heydinger drew caricatures from an early age, some of which were published in the "Folkestone Herald". He gained his first experience with journalism and photography. When he came of age in 1945, he was called up for military service, trained as a parachutist and stationed in Palestine until 1948 .

In 1949 he married and in 1951 his only child, the son Van, was born.

In 1953 Heydinger became a freelancer at INP (International News Photos) , from 1957 he worked for The Times , for which he photographed the meeting of Vivian Fuchs and Edmund Hillary as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1957/58. From 1960 to 1966 he was the chief photographer at The Observer , during which time he created iconic photographs a. a. by Elizabeth II , Winston Churchill , John F. Kennedy , Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe . He photographed major sporting events ( 1956 Winter Olympics , Monaco Formula One Grand Prix 1966 , Wimbledon tennis championship 1960 ) and trouble spots ( Second Indo-Pakistani War 1965, coup against Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana 1966, Biafra War 1968). In Biafra Heydinger had to watch helplessly the death of many innocent people, especially children. Since then, he should never again accept assignments in crisis areas.

In the early 1970s he learned to paint by himself and earned his living with portraits of people and animals. Between 1974 and 1982 he made a large number of painted and photographed pictures on several trips to the Basque Country. In 1979 he moved to Bremen for private reasons and later to Hude (Oldenburg) . During this time he photographed the north German landscape and worked as a freelance photographer for the Oldenburg State Theater and the Wilhelmshaven City Theater .

Exhibitions (selection)

reception

The photo historian Dr. Enno Kaufold speaks of Heydinger as a "news photographer with humanistic ideals"

literature

"Just a moment ... Photographs by Stuart Heydinger", publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg (ed.). 2007, Carl Ed. Schünemann KG Verlag, Bremen. ISBN 978-3-7961-1904-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuart Heydinger obituary . In: The Guardian , November 3, 2019. 
  2. ↑ Weiler-Streichsbier, Doris, Heydinger, Stuart, exhibition Just a Moment - Photographs by Stuart Heydinger <2007 - 2008, Oldenburg>, State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg: Just a moment ... Photographs by Stuart Heydinger; [to the exhibition "Just a Moment ... Photographs by Stuart Heydinger"] . Schünemann, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7961-1904-0 .
personal data
SURNAME Heydinger, Stuart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston upon Thames
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2019
Place of death Hude , Oldenburg, Germany