Horst Tappe; portrait photographer
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Picasso portrait photographer dies
GENEVA Aug 25
A few of the striking photos:
http://www.bok.bonnier.se/foton/abfoton/H2002/vladimir_nabokov.htm
http://www.britannica.com/nobel/micro/394_69.html
http://www.rue-des-archives.com/_customer/francais/horst.html
German photographer Horst Tappe, who immortalised scores of
famous artists and writers including Pablo Picasso, Vladimir
Nabokov and Salman Rushdie, has died aged 67, his family
announced on Thursday.
Tappe, who had been ill for some time, died on Sunday in
Vevey, Switzerland, the family said.
The photographer captured on film portraits of a host of
personalities, notably painter Oskar Kokoschka, playwright
Noel Coward, and novelists Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch,
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Georges Simenon and the creator of
James Bond, Ian Fleming.
Born in Westphalia, Germany on May 13, 1938, Tappe had been
based since 1965 in Montreux, in western Switzerland.