A Storied Photographer Turns 95
When you’ve lived for almost a century, traditional birthday celebrations can seem somewhat redundant. So in Phil Stern’s case, he is marking his 95th turn around the make-a-wish corner by gifting someone else. Stern, who will officially mark his latest birthday in Los Angeles tomorrow, has donated prints of 95 of his iconic shots to the Veterans Home of California.
From a report in Variety by Shelli Weinstein:
As a teen, Stern had worked as an apprentice in a New York photo studio and as a local police photographer, but got his baptism of fire, quite literally, at age 21, when he became a combat photographer in Darby’s Rangers during World War II, after convincing Colonel William O.
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