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Fred W. McDarrah was an American photographer and journalist best known for his photographs of the Beat Generation, the civil rights movement, and the New York City art and music scenes of the 1960s. He was born on November 5, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States. McDarrah began his career as a photographer in the 1950s, working for magazines such as Life, Look, and Holiday. He was a staff photographer for the Village Voice from 1958 to 2007, and his work was featured in the paper's weekly column, "Scenes". He also wrote articles for the Voice, and was the paper's first art critic. McDarrah's photographs of the Beat Generation, civil rights movement, and New York City art and music scenes of the 1960s have been widely published and exhibited. He was the author of several books, including Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village (1992), The Artist's World in Pictures (1995), and Gay Pride: Photographs from Stonewall to Today (1998). McDarrah died on November 26, 2007, at the age of 81. He was survived by his wife, Gloria, and their two children.

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Occupation Photographer, photojournalist
Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 5 November 1926
Birthday 5 November
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Date of death (2007-11-06) Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, United States
Died Place Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, United States
Nationality United States

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1994

He was one of the first to photograph Bob Dylan. He photographed people at the time of the Stonewall riots; those pictures were among those gathered in the book Gay Pride (1994), one of over a dozen books including his photographs.

1981

He died in his sleep at his home in Greenwich Village a few hours after his 81st birthday.

1960

In 1960, he married Gloria Schoffel. They had two sons, Timothy and Patrick.

1939

He bought his first camera at the 1939 World's Fair for 39 cents, but he did not start taking photographs as a vocation until he was a paratrooper in occupied Japan following World War II.

1926

Frederick William McDarrah (November 5, 1926 – November 6, 2007) was an American staff photographer for The Village Voice and an author. He is best known for documenting the cultural phenomenon known as the Beat Generation from its inception in the 1950s. In his book The Artist's World in Pictures, co-authored with Thomas B. Hess, McDarrah documented the New York art world, the New York School and the world of Abstract expressionism in New York City during the late 1950s.