Celebrated Photographer of Black Los Angeles Guy Crowder Dies

Trailblazing black photojournalist Guy Crowder died this past Sunday of pneumonia, days after suffering a stroke. He was 72. Crowder got his start photographing South Central Los Angeles in the early 1960’s. Despite his talent, and despite having access to a world no one else was covering, mainstream publications like the Los Angeles Times, the Herald Examiner, the Santa Monica Evening Outlook, AP and UPI refused to hire him because of his race. And yet he persevered, eventually having a career that spanned decades and that allowed him to capture some of the most important moments in LA history.