Source
Dmitri Kessel, 92, a Life Magazine Photographer
Citation
Saxon, Wolfgang. “Dmitri Kessel, 92, a Life Magazine Photographer.” The New York Times, March 1995. Obituary. (Exact section/page not re-verified in this seed entry.)
Relevance
Named-author obituary of record for Dmitri Kessel (1902–1995), LIFE magazine staff photographer, whose print appears at plate #12 of The Family of Man (Lovers). Source for the biographical dates in pher-dmitri-kessel.
Key excerpts / pages
- Birth: August 26, 1902, Kiev (Kyiv), Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).
- Death: March 19, 1995, Paris, France.
- Career summary notes his thirty-year association with LIFE magazine and his extensive coverage of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Notes
- The MoMA Master Checklist attributes Kessel to LIFE with nationality “American”; the NYT obituary records his Russian-Empire / Ukrainian birthplace before US immigration. Checklist attribution is preserved in
nationality; birthplace context is carried innotes. - Perspective: journalistic / biographical.
- Not fetchable anywhere (NYT paywall; no Wayback Machine snapshot found via archive.org API). Marked verified: false per issue #9 procedure. Wikipedia’s entry on Kessel gives different day/month dates (b. Aug 20; d. March 26 in Southampton, New York) but cites no source for them — per CREDIBILITY.md Wikipedia is not a valid citation endpoint, and an earlier draft of this file that adopted the Wikipedia dates was reverted. The dates shown in Key excerpts are the ones recorded in the seed entry from the NYT obituary and are held on that citation only; both the seed and the Wikipedia variants should be re-verified against the original NYT obituary when access becomes available.