Artist Maria Sol Escobar, known as Marisol, photographed in 1968. (Photo by Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)
Back in grad school, I had a professor who wrote obits for the New York Times and I can still remember the way students denigrated this gig. I didn’t really know what to make of it until this year, when I found myself writing a few obits here and there.
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But it wasn’t until I put together this round up for CraveOnline, honoring those we lost in 2016 from Marisol and Zaha Hadid to Bill Cunningham and Malick Sidibe, that I began to understand the sanctity of a beautifully penned obituary. But it was more than that (it always is). It’s that moment where you page through the book of life and tears well to your eyes with recognition.
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You realize Muhammad Ali and Howard Bingham left the mortal plane the same year. You remember discovering the work of Zaha Hadid at your first job in publishing at Rizzoli, realizing architecture could go beyond your wildest dreams. You remember Bill Cunningham photographing you are parties here and there, but the only time you made the Times was from the ankle down for the “Shoes” show at FIT!
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And you think: I don’t even know these people but I am so grateful to have shared the earth with them ..
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