donderdag, april 13, 2006
Thomas Abercrombie (National Geographic) overleden
Thomas J. Abercrombie, a globe-trotting photographer and writer for National Geographic and the first journalist to visit the South Pole, died April 3 at age 75. He died of complications from heart surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore.
In his 38 years at National Geographic, Abercrombie was dispatched to witness world events as momentous as a civil war in Yemen, a new capital in Brazil, Alaska's admission as a U.S. state, unrest in Cambodia and the breakup of Czechoslovakia. His expense accounts were the stuff of legend, including a time in Alaska when he expensed an entire airplane and once in Yemen where he reported the purchase of two AK-47s as "auto insurance."
He became one of the magazine's experts on the Middle East, and in 1966 took the first photographs of Mecca published in the Western world. A practicing Muslim, he made the haj to Mecca four times.
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En als u denkt "Thomas wie?" kent u toch vast wel deze foto.
In his 38 years at National Geographic, Abercrombie was dispatched to witness world events as momentous as a civil war in Yemen, a new capital in Brazil, Alaska's admission as a U.S. state, unrest in Cambodia and the breakup of Czechoslovakia. His expense accounts were the stuff of legend, including a time in Alaska when he expensed an entire airplane and once in Yemen where he reported the purchase of two AK-47s as "auto insurance."
He became one of the magazine's experts on the Middle East, and in 1966 took the first photographs of Mecca published in the Western world. A practicing Muslim, he made the haj to Mecca four times.
Lees meer bij Photo District Newswire, de Washington Post en de NPPA.
En als u denkt "Thomas wie?" kent u toch vast wel deze foto.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 21:18
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