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Thread #134322 Message #3057458
Posted By: Amos
19-Dec-10 - 05:23 PM
Thread Name: Obit: RIP George Pickow (10 Dec 2010, age 88)
Subject: Obit: George Pickow Dec. 18, 2010
George Pickow, a photographer best known for the thousands of album covers in which he captured the titans of folk, jazz and pop music Ñ including Theodore Bikel, Louis Armstrong and Lena Horne Ñ in their midcentury prime, died on Dec. 10 in Roslyn, N.Y. He was 88 and lived in Port Washington, on Long Island.
The cause was respiratory failure, his son Jon said. Mr. Pickow also had a home in Viper, Ky., the birthplace of his wife, the folk singer Jean Ritchie.
Jean, I know that all of our hearts go out to you. This is a terrible loss. I wish you great courage.
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