City street fashion legendary New York photographer Bill Cunningham loses

Bill Cunningham, the photographer of iconic road that the changing fashions for nearly 40 years for the New York Times Chronicle, has died at the age of 87 years.

The rich and famous has appeared in his column "on the road" for the New York Times Style section, but most of the recurring themes favorites was Cunningham None.

Cunningham Company include bicycle, a blue jacket and a camera around his neck.

Newspaper publisher Arthur Sulzberger said in a statement: "We have lost a legend, and I am heartbroken have personally lost a friend."

The experienced photographer, who through his Street - was considered style in the New York Times photo, was been the object of the stars that followed the artist for the Big Apple, while people in the documentary Bill Cunningham New York (2011), photographed every day in Manhattan.

And they did shine, especially if Cunningham his pictures. In 2010 was published in the life and work of the legendary photographer Bill Cunningham title in New York as a documentation tool.

John William Cunningham was in Boston in 1929 to Irish - born Catholic family workers. He was hired by Fairchild to fashion women cover everyday wear, and his first series of photos for the Times in 1978 debuted.

In 2008 France Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the highest cultural award of the country. It has a bit -. Some of the most influential in the fashion among his fans, as editor in chief of Vogue, Anna Wintour, who told him with great affection, for men, many years, "we will all be dressed for Bill", was living alone in a narrow studio, full of film negatives, and they slept in a bed.

Iris Apfel, 94, one of the most famous style - Gurus New York, Cunningham attributes helped him establish himself as a final model of life. I know what people mean by a more formal attitude when they say they are appalled by what they see on the street.

The photographer Bill Cunningham had to identify a talent for fashion trends, which made ​​him a reluctant celebrity. But it was never fully embraced the celebrity, also said: ". I am not interested in celebrities with their free dresses"