Noted Photographer Bill Eppridge Is Dead at 75

From:  News Times

This 2009 photo taken by R. David Marks and
released courtesy of the Monroe Gallery
shows photographer Bill Eppridge. 

 Bill Eppridge's shocking 1968 photo of a dying Robert F. Kennedy for Life magazine became an enduring image of the 1960s.

The violence and heroism of Vietnam; Latin American revolutions; the aftermath of murder during the Civil Rights movement; frolicking in the mud at Woodstock; the mop-topped Beatles; even New York drug abusers were subjects for his prolific work.

But it was Eppridge's charming personality and tenacious professionalism that won him access behind the scenes, from inside Kennedy's ill-fated presidential campaign to the Beatles' antic residency at New York's Plaza Hotel.

Like that June night in a California hotel when an assassin's bullets tore through Kennedy, Eppridge kept clicking the shutter of his Nikon cameras, piling up images in a career that stretched from his Virginia childhood to his recent hospitalization.

CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES - JUNE 05, 1968:
Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel
after being shot by a young Jordanian Sirhan Sirhan.
The senator died later, June 6, 1968.
Busboy Juan Romero is among those aiding Kennedy.
Photo: Bill Eppridge, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Eppridge, 75, of New Milford, died Thursday morning at Danbury Hospital after a brief illness, just months before the scheduled release of a collection of previously unpublished photographs, "The Beatles: Six Days That Changed the World. February, 1964."

He is survived by his wife, Adrienne Aurichio.

See more of his work here!

Shirtless man in Levi Strauss jeans lying on motorcycle seat
at Woodstock music festival.
 Photo: Bill Eppridge, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Portrait of an unidentified shirtless man as he sleeps stretched
across the trunks of two parked cars (one of them a Chevy Nova),
his head covered by a bolero hat,
at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in Bethel, New York,
August 15 - 17 (and part of the 18th), 1969.
Photo: Bill Eppridge, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image