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Eamonn McCabe
Born28 July 1948 Edit this on Wikidata
Died2 October 2022 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 74)
Saxmundham Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationPhotographer Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
Websitehttps://eamonnmccabe.co.uk Edit this on Wikidata

Eamonn McCabe (1948 – 2 October 2022) was a British photographer. He began as a sports photographer and later worked in editorial portrait photography. Many of his portraits are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.[1]

Early life

McCabe was born in North London in 1948.[2][3] He briefly attended film school in San Francisco, but was otherwise self-taught in photographing.[2]

Career

McCabe started working for The Observer in 1976. He began his career as a sports photographer, winning Sports Photographer of the Year four times between 1978 and 1984.[2] He then turned his attention to general editorial portraiture for The Observer and The Guardian.[2] He made photographic contributions to the weekly Guardian Profile.[1][4]

McCabe's work encompasses a variety of subjects and topics, but he has largely concentrated on portraits of those in the arts. These include actors, writers, poets, artists, and musicians. McCabe also ventured into sports photography, capturing figures in action. It was as a sports photographer that he was attending the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, but he ended up being a news photographer as he found himself taking the famous but tragic images of the Heysel Stadium disaster.[5][6]

McCabe worked as the picture editor for Decade, Phaidon's photographic review of the first ten years of the new Millennium.[7]

McCabe was Visiting Senior Fellow in Photography at the University of Suffolk, held an Honorary Doctorate of the University of East Anglia and Staffordshire University, and was an Honorary Professor at Thames Valley University.[8]

Personal life

McCabe was married to Rebecca Smithers until his death.[2][9] Together, they had one child. He also had another child from a previous marriage.[2]

McCabe died on 2 October 2022 at his home in Suffolk. He was 74 years old.[2]

Publications

  • Eamonn McCabe: Sports Photographer. London: Aurum, 1982. Compiled by Geoffrey Nicholson. ISBN 978-0906053393. With a foreword by Hugh McIlvanney.
  • The Pope in Britain: the Official Record. London: Bodley Head, 1982. ISBN 9780370309255. With forewords by Basil Hume and Gordon Gray.
  • Eamonn McCabe: Photographer. London: Kingswood, 1987. ISBN 9780434981106. With text by Simon Barnes and a foreword by Edward Lucie-Smith.
  • The Making of Great Photographs: approaches and techniques of the masters. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 2005; 2008.
  • Artists and their Studios. Battle: Angela Patchell, 2008. Photographs by McCabe and text by Michael McNay. ISBN 9781906245061.
  • Decade. Phaidon, 2010. Edited by McCabe. ISBN 978-0714857688. With text by Terence McNamee.
  • From Above: The Story of Aerial Photography. Laurence King, 2019. By McCabe and Gemma Padley. ISBN 978-1786275219.

Collections

McCabe's work is held in the following permanent collection:

References

  1. ^ a b c "Eamonn McCabe: (1948-), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Brown, Mark (3 October 2022). "Guardian and Observer photographer Eamonn McCabe dies aged 74". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Eamonn McCabe, Photographer". London: National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 3 October 2022.
  4. ^ McCabe, Eamonn (4 March 2017). "From art to selfies – my lifelong affair with photography". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  5. ^ "BBC Arts - Photography - How photographing Heysel football disaster changed my life". BBC. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  6. ^ "The Heysel Stadium disaster remembered 30 years on". Sky Sports. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
  7. ^ "Eamonn McCabe: a career in photographs - Photography - Agenda - Phaidon". 1 March 2012. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
  8. ^ "Dr Eamonn McCabe". uos.ac.uk. 4 July 2016.
  9. ^ {cite news|title=Rebecca's pride at taking part in fashion show|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/03/guardian-observer-photographer-eamonn-mccabe-dies%7Cfirst=Craig%7Clast=Robinson%7Cdate=2 October 2009|access-date=3 October 2022|newspaper=Ipswich Star}}

External links

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