Bill Cunningham master of street photography Fashion dead at 87

The legendary fashion photographer Bill Cunningham New York Times, died on Saturday, according to the document, where he worked for almost 40 years.

He was 87th

Cunningham, whose eye brought images of New Yorkers - trends brought in unawares - to the public, which was recently after a stroke in the hospital, the Times reports.

Credited with the genre of the road to create fashion photography, Cunningham held a passion for capturing a similar theme or aspect is the trend.

It was, as the New York Times a "unlikely cultural anthropologist." As

Cunningham, who served with a handheld camera around the neck New York in the jacket of his blue worker mark and went on his bicycle, was a stranger, the great avant-garde tendencies talent, street, bring on the podium to light or shineth celebrations.

In a documentary about Cunningham, Anna Wintour, 2010 - the powerful editor of Vogue US and one of the photographers Muses -. marveled at their ability to "see something in the street or on the track, we all completely lost and within six months, a trend is to be!"

Frank Rich, a former reporter for the New York Times and executive producer of the HBO series "Veep" wrote: "Bill Cunningham was also a charming and fascinating person and a colleague when he as an artist was an independent, generous spirit, no air. . "

The recipient of the Legion of Honor of France in 2008 Cunningham was also named a landmark living by the New York Landmarks Conservancy in of 2009.

"Today we have lost a living monument that never stopped. We are more fabulous everything in memory of the bill to be" tweeted the post of mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio.

De Blasio added: "We remember Bill jacket and blue bicycle Especially let us remember the bright, vibrant New York who held in his photos.".

The Quiet Man, born in Boston in 1929, "not much to say," one of the founding editors of InStyle, Hal Rubenstein, told AFP in, 2014.

"His wealth of knowledge is absolutely stunning and away. He knows exactly who he is, he is the person to person other than his own ... It is beyond science."

Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr., and President added: "The company is being investigated by the rich world of fashion and was powerful, but remained one of the friendliest people, most gentle and humble people I know."

"We have lost a legend, and I am heartbroken that have personally lost a friend," Sulzberger said.