Photographer

Pedro E. Guerrero, a former art-school dropout who showed up in the dusty Arizona driveway of Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939, boldly declared himself a photographer and then spent the next half-century working closely with him, capturing his modernist architecture on film, died Thursday at his home in Florence, Ariz. He was 95. Until his death in 1959, Mr. Wright placed his trust in Mr. Guerrero as his exclusive photographer. In turn, Mr. Guerrero fell in love with the architect's work and traveled frequently to photograph his buildings.

PITTSBURGH - Charles "Teenie" Harris had a photographic mission: going beyond the obvious or sensational to capture the essence of daily African American life in the 20th century For more than 40 years, Harris - as lead photographer for the influential Pittsburgh Courier newspaper - took almost 80,000 pictures of people from all walks of life: presidents, housewives, sports stars, babies, civil rights leaders, cross-dressing drag queens....

Myron "Mike" Krasney, 91, of Willingboro, a longtime photographer who founded Abbey Studios in Philadelphia and chronicled the experiences of soldiers at war and artists during the Great Depression, died of congestive heart failure Oct. 15 at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County. Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and printmaker Dox Thrash found their way into pictures taken by Mr. Krasney, who worked for the federal government during the Depression and World War II. Born in Ukraine, Mr. Krasney immigrated to the United States with his family in 1921.

For most of this century, one of the marks of being rich and famous in Philadelphia was to have had your photograph taken by Bachrach. But a tradition that began here in 1915 is ending. Bachrach said yesterday it is closing its studio at 1611 Walnut St., along with studios in Chicago and San Francisco. Five studios will remain - Boston; Alexandria, Va., New York City, and two suburban New York locations, Morristown, N.J., and Greenwich, Ct. Why? "Because of terrible business conditions," says Louis "Chip" Bachrach, a fourth-generation descendant of the company's founder, and current chairman of the board.

The flying fox, collected on a 1937 expedition to the South Pacific, seems to gaze pensively from inside a jar of alcohol. Jumbled in a box are the bones of an Eskimo dog collected by members of an 1892 Greenland expedition to search for explorer Robert Edwin Peary Sr. Ghostly ratfish, their translucent bodies stained blue, intertwine in their liquid realm. They're all just dead things, really. But in them, Rosamond Purcell has found meaning, artistic expression, and a certain beauty.

Discharged from the Army in January 1944, Walter M. Faust was eager to return to his job as an Associated Press photographer in Philadelphia. But fate chose another path for him. A month after his discharge, his father asked him to photograph the Wanamaker Rose Show. The elder Faust, a former photographer who had opened a floral business, was chairman of the show. Walter took the pictures, and John Wanamaker Co. president John Rouse was impressed enough to tender a contract offer.

The body of a man found Friday outside the Church of St. Asaph in Bala Cynwyd was that of the Philadelphia photographer Johnathan F. Zellars, police, his minister, and the Montgomery County coroner said. Zellars, 62, was found dead Friday morning by the sexton in a car parked on the grounds of the church on Conshohocken State Road in Lower Merion Township. Montgomery County Coroner Walter I. Hofman attributed the death to natural causes, likely brought on by a medical condition.

Perhaps, by sheer volume or the absence of merit, blogs that allow anyone to publish and cell phones that make photographers of us all ultimately will dull our reactions to the strife that surrounds us. But if that happens, don't blame Harvey Finkle. A documentary photographer whose black-and-white stills are extensively exhibited and published, Finkle records the struggles of individuals in need and the activists who rally on their behalf. At demonstrations where the cause was accessibility for the disabled, justice for the criminally accused, protection for workers, or respect for cultural difference, Finkle, now 75, has stood vigil for more than 30 years on Philadelphia's streets, training his lens on emotions that exceed words.

The claws are out in Hollywood. Fun couple Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake, who are like the prom king and queen of showbiz, were leaving the Chateau Marmont late last Saturday when they were set upon by paparazzi (that's Italian for "stalkers with Nikons"). Instead of cowering while the flashbulbs popped, Diaz allegedly went all Jackie Chan on one of the photographers. We worry about what kind of precedent this might set for other leading ladies, especially since, according to the paparazzo, after pummeling him into submission she snatched his camera.