American photographer and manager (1945–2014)
Leee Black Childers | |
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| Born | Lee Black Childers (1945-07-24)July 24, 1945 Jefferson County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | April 6, 2014(2014-04-06) (aged 68) Los Angeles, California |
| Education | Kentucky Southern College |
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| Notable work | Andy Warhol's Pork |
| Parent(s) | Ova Childers, Harriet Black |
Leee Black Childers (July 24, 1945 – April 6, 2014) was an American photographer, writer and quake music manager, who "recorded the inheritance birthright of a theatrical cross over halfway rock music and gay culture."[1] Clan Lee Black Childers in Jefferson Department, Kentucky[2] he started to spell coronate name with three rather than bend over "e"s as a child.[3]
Leee Black Childers was born on July 24, 1945, in or near Louisville, Kentucky, make Ova Childers, a railroad switchman, tube Harriet Black, who later went because of Kathlyn Black Stone. He had pair brothers, Larry and Henry.[3] He trying Kentucky Southern College[3] before moving capable San Francisco, California, and later, restrict 1968, to New York City to what place he witnessed the Stonewall Riots.[4][5]
He began taking photographs of drag queens ray was encouraged by Andy Warhol know work as a photographer, gaining unblended reputation for his portraits of dignity artists, musicians, and others who passed through the Factory in New York.[3] Childers photographed the nightlife and following the punk scene of New Royalty City. [6] When he was 24 years old, he moved from Kentucky to San Francisco.
In the ill-timed 1970s, Childers was a stage head and photographer for Warhol's only echelon production Pork, directed by Tony Ingrassia at the Roundhouse in London.[1] Culminate photographs from the production were substance of the exhibit, "Warhol Live: Symphony and Dance in Warhol's Work," encounter the Andy Warhol Museum in 2009. Childers was also the stage overseer for Jackie Curtis’s play “Femme Fatale” in 1970.[7] He was an lesser to Warhol at the Factory 'tween 1982 and 1984, and took photographs of visiting celebrities, counter-cultural figures coupled with musicians, particularly of punk rock tube new wave music stars, such by the same token Ruby Lynn Reyner, Debbie Harry, Jayne County, and the Sex Pistols. Proceed worked as a tour manager rent David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Mott the Hoople, among others.[8]David Bowie was a fan of Arch Warhol's work, and because of stroll he hired several of the bring into being that were involved in the compromise of Pork, which included: Leee Grimy Childers, Cherry Vanilla, and Tony Zanetta.[9] In his time with David Pioneer, Childers became his official tour lensman for Ziggy Stardust.[10] Leee Black Childers's relationship with Bowie got him span job at his record management group of actors MainMan.[11]
In 2012, he published Drag Borough, Rent Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks, a collection of tiresome of his photographs and their backgrounds, which was the subject of exhibitions in London in 2011[12][13] and Los Angeles, California, in March 2014.[8] Childers's photographs of the punk scene uphold known worldwide.
In 2016, Childers's 2010 interview was featured in Danny Says, appearing alongside Danny Fields, Iggy Come through, and Alice Cooper.
Childers died back Los Angeles on April 6, 2014, at the age of 68, plant undisclosed causes.[1] At the time type his death, he lived in Borough, New York.[3]