- Stanley Greene
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URL = http://www.noorimages.com/index.php?id=stanleygreeneStanley Greene (born 1949, in
Harlem, New York ) is aphotojournalist .Greene was born to middle class parents in Harlem. Both his parents were
actors . His father was aunion organizer, one of the firstAfrican Americans elected as an officer in theScreen Actors Guild , and belonged to theHarlem Renaissance movement. Greene's father wasblacklisted as aCommunist in the 1950s and forced to take uncredited parts inmovies . Greene's parents gave him his firstcamera when he was eleven years old.cite news | first = Dana |last = Thomas |title = Giving back | url = http://www.newsweek.com/id/52853 | work = Newsweek | date = 2004-01-26 | accessdate = 2008-09-20]Greene began his art career as a painter, but started taking photos as a means of cataloging material for his paintings. In 1971, when Greene was a member of the anti-war movement and the
Black Panthers , his friend,photographer W. Eugene Smith offered him space in his studio and encouraged him to studyphotography at theSchool of Visual Arts in New York and theSan Francisco Art Institute .cite news | first = Lester |last = Sloan |title = Heroes of photography: Stanley Greene | url = http://www.popphoto.com/americanphotofeatures/4048/stanley-greene.html | work = Pop Photo.com | date = May/June 2007 | accessdate = 2008-09-19]Greene held various jobs as a photographer, including taking pictures of rock bands and working at
Newsday . In 1986, he shotfashion inParis . He called himself a "dilettante , sitting in cafes, taking pictures of girls and doingheroin ". After a friend died ofAIDS , Greene kicked his drug habit and began to seriously pursue a photography career. He began photojournalism in 1989, when his image ("Kisses to All, Berlin Wall") of a tutu-clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of theBerlin Wall . While working for the Paris-based photo agency "Agence Vu" in October 1993, Greene was trapped and almost killed in the White House inMoscow during acoup attempt against PresidentBoris Yeltsin . He has covered the war-torn countriesNagorno-Karabakh ,Iraq ,Somalia ,Croatia ,Kashmir , andLebanon . He has taken pictures of thegenocide inRwanda in 1994 and the USGulf Coast in the aftermath ofHurricane Katrina in 2005.Since 1994, Greene is best known for his documentation of the conflict in Chechnya, between rebels and the Russian armed forces, which was compiled in his 2004 book, "
Open Wound ". These photos have drawn attention to the "suffering that has marked the latest surge in Chechnya's centuries-long struggle for independence fromRussia ".cite news | first = Alan |last = Riding |title = Finding his calling in Chechnya's images of war; A photojournalist's new book portrays the devastation of a bitter conflict | url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E3DB1F39F931A25752C1A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work = New York Times | date = 2003-11-13 | accessdate = 2008-09-21]In 2008, Greene revealed that he had
hepatitis C , which, he believed, he had contracted from a contaminatedrazor while working inChad in 2007. After controlling the disease with medication, he traveled toAfghanistan and shot a story about "the crisis of drug abuse and infectious disease". [cite news | first = Daryl |last = Lane | title = Stanley Greene: Photographing illness while confronting his own | url = http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/content_display/photo-news/photojournalism/e3i6f1a24d20528a54705ed34582d528726| work = Photo District News | date = 2008-09-15 | accessdate = 2008-09-20]Bibliography
* "Somnambule" (1993). With
Delacorta .
* "Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003" (2004). WithAndre Glucksmann and Christian Caujolle.
* "Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster" (2006). With Thomas Dworzak, Kadir van Lohuizen, and Paolo Pellegrin.
* "Chalk Lines: The Caucasus" (2007).References
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