Seminal School-Portrait Photographer Dies At 92

Bad year for losing the greats in photography. This touching report will bring a smile to your face as you remember standing in line waiting for the teacher to comb your hair and sit you on the stool... I am wondering why he would have chosen Eloy as a place to retire? Maybe it was the remote nature of it that helped keep the herds of young, idealistic School Photographers from constantly annoying him with questions on lighting and the best way to have a kid clasp their hands in their lap.

Read it all.... (from the ONION... get it)

The Onion Seminal School-Portrait Photographer Dies At 92: "PHOENIX�Henry Anszczak, the photographer whose influential work revolutionized modern school portraiture, died Sunday at his family home in Eloy. He was 92.

According to longtime assistant Dave Olsen, Anszczak died of natural causes.
'On Sunday, Mr. Anszczak passed away peacefully in his sleep, surrounded by his family and scores of yearbooks,' Olsen said. 'We will never forget his wonderful artistic achievements. He blazed the trail for thousands of school photographers nationwide. The lion of 20th-century public-educational culture roars no more.'"