Bill Cunningham, celebrated New York Times fashion photographer, dead at 87

Bill Cunningham, a longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times known for taking pictures of everyday people on the streets in New York, has died. He was 87.

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New York Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy says Cunningham died Saturday in New York City. The Boston-born photographer had recently been hospitalized after suffering from a stroke.

Cunningham was known for his trademark blue jacket and riding a bicycle with a small camera bag strapped to his waist.

After serving in the Army, Cunningham wrote fashion pieces for the Chicago Tribune and then started taking photographs of people on the streets. A chance photograph of Greta Garbo got the attention of the Times and in 1978 he began publishing a regular series of photographs in the storied paper. Read more...

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke Tuesday on the anniversary of Rosa Parks' Dec. 1, 1955 arrest for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger.

The event sparked the boycott of Montgomery buses by black Americans to protest segregated seating. But Clinton, the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, also marked the occasion with a special logo on her social media accounts.

It did not go over well on Twitter, where users suggested that Parks is seemingly seated at the back of an H-shaped bus.

.@HillaryClinton's design team honored Rosa Parks today by moving her to the back of the buspic.twitter.com/eIYnVQ9uPa

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