- Cunningham worked for the New York Times for nearly 40 years
- The newspaper confirmed that Cunningham died Saturday in New York
- Photographer, recently after suffering a stroke in hospital was born in Boston
- Vogue - editor Anna Wintour said: "We all dress for Bill '
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Bill Cunningham, a fashion photographer from New York known for his photographs of the new trends in the streets of New York, died on Saturday aged 87 after admitted for stroke to the hospital, the New York Times.
Cunningham for the New York Times worked for nearly 40 years of operation "as a columnist and fashion as a cultural anthropologist unlikely", the newspaper said.
He became known blue jacket for the use of its brand and mounted his bicycle to a small bag with camera at his waist.
After serving in the army, Cunningham writes fashion pieces for the Chicago Tribune and began to take to the streets images of people.
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Bill Cunningham (pictured in July last year) had been working as a fashion photographer and road for the New York Times for nearly 40 years. He died on Saturday, 87 years
Cunningham (with Anna Wintour at the show Donna Karan in the image during Fashion Week in September 2012) "dedicated chronicler and an unlikely cultural anthropologist," a was, told the newspaper
After serving in the army, Cunningham (in February 2015 New York Fashion Week pictured) has written plays for the Chicago Tribune and began fashion pictures of people take to the streets
Photographer (Photo Wintour: April 2012) tells the decades changing trends in the streets of New York City during his career
A photo of Greta Garbo probably got the attention of the New York Times and in 1978 began a regular series of photos in the newspaper to publish - one of the most influential people in the world always so.
"I have repeatedly said that all dress for Bill," said Vogue - editor Anna Wintour in Documentary 2010 Cunningham devoted called Cunningham New York.
Wintour and Cunningham were photographed together when he was facing the Carnegie Medal Hall - received four years of Excellence at the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
Cunningham operated with the belief that the way did not take place on the slopes, but on the road - documented and his essays in the New York Times decades trends in the sidewalks of New York.
His sharp eyes spotted items popular clothing elegant or sticky atmosphere, and the rear lens packet capture Birkin - bags, plaid shirts and pants fluorescent cyclists, "said the New York Times in an obituary of Cunningham on Saturday.
"I'm not interested in celebrities with their free dresses. I have interest in clothes" Cunningham said of his own work in the 2010 documentary.
Cunningham can - known to all the major figures in the industry, but his life was a model of asceticism, the New York Times.
I had breakfast each day at the same grocery store - Stage Star Deli on West 55th Street, and usually a sausage and egg - sandwich and a cup of coffee bought for less than $. 3
Cunningham has no TV, no movies, and lived until 2010 in the same studio where he kept his negatives.
His bed was photographed in the 2010 documentary film between the rows of filing cabinets.
"If you do not take the money, you can not say to do what," Cunningham, who also appeared on the clothing, he said.
Cunningham was born in March 1929 in Boston, in an Irish Catholic family and was the second of four children, wrote the New York Times.
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Cunningham (Picture 1989) was awarded a scholarship to Harvard, but dropped out after only a few months. the people there, "thought [he] was illiterate" He says that if it was indeed a visual person
After Cunningham (pictured in September 2012 during Fashion Week in New York), fashion did not happen on the slopes, but it took actually on the streets
Cunningham (pictured in February 2015 Jeremy Scott Fashion Show), he said in celebrity was not interested in the clothes of "free" carried, but he really cared about clothes
His first race was hats, he began to do at school, after to collect pieces of fabric in a store cents.
Cunningham received a scholarship at Harvard University, but dropped out after only two months.
"They thought I was an illiterate, Cunningham told the New York Times." I'm desperate - but I'm a visual person.
Then he went with his uncle in New York to live and lived with him until the man told him, "to stop the hats or leave [his] apartment.
Cunningham moved into his own apartment on 52nd Street, and uses them to present their creations.
At the same time he began a separate column of women in daily use as a way to make the writing a little more money - but resigned in early 1960 after a dispute with his publisher the relative merits of designers André Courrèges and Yves Saint Laurent.
The trends for women wore hats less and less and could say that would soon have to find a new career, the New York Times Cunningham.
He picked up his first camera around 1967 and took pictures of the summer of love in the streets.
Cunningham got a few jobs in the Daily News and the Chicago Tribune before regular New York Times be in the late 1970s.
The publisher offered a position again in the next 20 years, but denied Cunningham to say. "Once people have, they can tell you what to do so 'do not let em.
Finally, he accepted an invitation to while being hit on his bike in 1994 by a truck, to explain that he needed the position of the health insurance.
Cunningham has never claimed to have a relationship.
As Richard Press, which was the documentary about Cunningham directed about his personal life asked the photographer said, "Will - how to know if I'm gay 'This is not a whirlwind is ... No, no ... It's never occurred to me, "she told the New York Magazine.
The fashion world pays tribute to the talent of Cunningham - and unusual - after the news of his death broke on Saturday.
His company investigated by the rich world of fashion and powerful, but still one of the kindest, most gentle and humble people I know, "said the editor of the New York Times and chairman Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.
"We have lost a legend, and I personally, you have lost a friend feel.
Many photos and drawings Cunningham shared with his blue jacket and bike on social networks.
Those who had seen him, he said a fashion show met and spoke with the excitement of the ways Cunningham.
Lena Dunham wrote on Instagram: "Given the bill and do your work for the first time when he was seven years old - I did not know who he was, but I knew that he has all the major world stop and adjust.
"It was exactly the same atmosphere, when I saw him a month ago, people suddenly uncertain imagination in the presence of this particular eccentric. It was powerful, but he was gentle and kind. He had a vision, and he will miss them. "
Garance Dore French fashion - blogger who lives in New York, wrote on Instagram: "Some legends go out there and you hardly notice them, because that is exactly what they want.
Bill Cunningham was good, and his life was able to keep the fire and to the distance from the object to do the distance that allows him to do the work that he has done.
"I always go, go, go, rain, snow, heat, always smiling.
Dressed in a blue jacket and cycling Cunningham was two brands and persistently reflected his modest lifestyle. It is photographed in this year in New York in April
Cunningham (pictured in July 2014) said: "If you do not take the money, he can not say what to do" He had breakfast in the same supermarket every day and often. He bought an egg sandwich and coffee for under $ 3
After being hit by a truck while driving his bike in 1994, Cunningham has accepted (right in 2010) finally a position on the staff of the New York Times and explained that he needed for health insurance
Cunningham (pictured in May this year in New York City) had no television, no cinema, and lived until 2010 in the same studio where he held his refusal
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