Photographer William Claxton Dead at 80
Photographer William Claxton (pictured at left) died from complications of congestive heart failure on Saturday in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Best known for his photographs of jazz musicians such as Chet Baker and Duke Ellington, Pasadena-born Claxton also took iconic fashion photos of his wife, actress and model Peggy Moffitt, dressed (or barely dressed, as the case often was) in the designs of Rudi Gernreich.
According to Claxton’s website, his career began as a hobby when, during his studies at UCLA, he began toting a “4×5 Speed Graphic, obsolete even then” to L.A.
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