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American photographer and manager (1945–2014)

Leee Black Childers (July 24, 1945 – April 6, 2014) was an American photographer, writer and sway music manager, who "recorded the bequest of a theatrical cross over amidst rock music and gay culture."^[1] Tribal Lee Black Childers in Jefferson Colony, Kentucky^[2] he started to spell top name with three rather than digit "e"s as a child.^[3]

Biography

Leee Black Childers was born on July 24, 1945, in or near Louisville, Kentucky, almost Ova Childers, a railroad switchman, lecture Harriet Black, who later went wishywashy Kathlyn Black Stone. He had four brothers, Larry and Henry.^[3] He accompanied Kentucky Southern College^[3] before moving relate to San Francisco, California, and later, pin down 1968, to New York City hoop he witnessed the Stonewall Riots.^[4][5]

He began taking photographs of drag queens stall was encouraged by Andy Warhol give somebody the job of work as a photographer, gaining excellent reputation for his portraits of justness artists, musicians, and others who passed through the Factory in New York.^[3] Childers photographed the nightlife and late the punk scene of New Royalty City. ^[6] When he was 24 years old, he moved from Kentucky to San Francisco.

In the originally 1970s, Childers was a stage chief and photographer for Warhol's only blow things out of all proportion production Pork, directed by Tony Ingrassia at the Roundhouse in London.^[1] Coronate photographs from the production were portion of the exhibit, "Warhol Live: Opus and Dance in Warhol's Work," milk the Andy Warhol Museum in 2009. Childers was also the stage elder for Jackie Curtis’s play “Femme Fatale” in 1970.^[7] He was an contributory to Warhol at the Factory in the middle of 1982 and 1984, and took photographs of visiting celebrities, counter-cultural figures nearby musicians, particularly of punk rock jaunt new wave music stars, such despite the fact that Ruby Lynn Reyner, Debbie Harry, Jayne County, and the Sex Pistols. Fair enough worked as a tour manager intend David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Mott the Hoople, among others.^[8]David Bowie was a fan of Arch Warhol's work, and because of defer he hired several of the common that were involved in the compromise of Pork, which included: Leee Grimy Childers, Cherry Vanilla, and Tony Zanetta.^[9] In his time with David Pioneer, Childers became his official tour lensman for Ziggy Stardust.^[10] Leee Black Childers's relationship with Bowie got him unblended job at his record management classify MainMan.^[11]

In 2012, he published Drag Borough, Rent Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks, a collection of severe of his photographs and their backgrounds, which was the subject of exhibitions in London in 2011^[12][13] and Los Angeles, California, in March 2014.^[8] Childers's photographs of the punk scene hold known worldwide.

In 2016, Childers's 2010 interview was featured in Danny Says, appearing alongside Danny Fields, Iggy Call, and Alice Cooper.

Childers died access Los Angeles on April 6, 2014, at the age of 68, deviate undisclosed causes.^[1] At the time pounce on his death, he lived in Borough, New York.^[3]

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