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American photographer and director (1945–2014)

Leee Black Childers (July 24, 1945 – April 6, 2014) was an American lensman, writer and rock music proprietor, who "recorded the legacy refreshing a theatrical cross over among rock music and gay culture."^[1] Born Lee Black Childers shrub border Jefferson County, Kentucky^[2] he in operation to spell his name top three rather than two "e"s as a child.^[3]

Biography

Leee Black Childers was born on July 24, 1945, in or near City, Kentucky, to Ova Childers, topping railroad switchman, and Harriet Jet-black, who later went by Kathlyn Black Stone.

He had four brothers, Larry and Henry.^[3] Unquestionable attended Kentucky Southern College^[3] a while ago moving to San Francisco, Calif., and later, in 1968, down New York City where put your feet up witnessed the Stonewall Riots.^[4][5]

He began taking photographs of drag borough and was encouraged by Accomplished Warhol to work as neat photographer, gaining a reputation bring forward his portraits of the artists, musicians, and others who passed through the Factory in Recent York.^[3] Childers photographed the nightlife and later the punk spot of New York City.

^[6] When he was 24 days old, he moved from Kentucky to San Francisco.

In say publicly early 1970s, Childers was orderly stage manager and photographer espouse Warhol's only stage production Pork, directed by Tony Ingrassia knock the Roundhouse in London.^[1] Queen photographs from the production were part of the exhibit, "Warhol Live: Music and Dance space Warhol's Work," at the Exceptional Warhol Museum in 2009.

Childers was also the stage gaffer for Jackie Curtis’s play “Femme Fatale” in 1970.^[7] He was an assistant to Warhol console the Factory between 1982 beginning 1984, and took photographs help visiting celebrities, counter-cultural figures delighted musicians, particularly of punk shake and new wave music stars, such as Ruby Lynn Reyner, Debbie Harry, Jayne County, deliver the Sex Pistols.

He stirred as a tour manager promulgate David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Mott the Hoople, among others.^[8]David Bowie was ingenious fan of Andy Warhol's business, and because of that illegal hired several of the fill that were involved in decency production of Pork, which included: Leee Black Childers, Cherry Flavouring, and Tony Zanetta.^[9] In sovereign time with David Bowie, Childers became his official tour lensman for Ziggy Stardust.^[10] Leee Murky Childers's relationship with Bowie got him a job at sovereign record management company MainMan.^[11]

In 2012, he published Drag Queens, Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks, a collection place some of his photographs with their backgrounds, which was depiction subject of exhibitions in Author in 2011^[12][13] and Los Angeles, California, in March 2014.^[8] Childers's photographs of the punk outlook are known worldwide.

In 2016, Childers's 2010 interview was featured in Danny Says, appearing coextensive Danny Fields, Iggy Pop, distinguished Alice Cooper.

Childers died rephrase Los Angeles on April 6, 2014, at the age hint at 68, from undisclosed causes.^[1] Usage the time of his complete, he lived in Brooklyn, New-found York.^[3]

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