{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Short description|American photojournalist (1949–2017)}} {{for|other subjects with similar names|Stanley Green (disambiguation)}} {{Infobox person | name = Stanley Greene | image = Stanley_Greene.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1949|02|14}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|05|19|1949|02|14}} | death_place = Paris, France | education = {{ubl|School of Visual Arts, New York|San Francisco Art Institute}} | occupation = Photojournalist | agent = NOOR photo agency | title = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | family = | birthname = | alias = | domesticpartner = | credits = }} '''Stanley Greene Jr.''' (February 14, 1949 – May 19, 2017) was an American photojournalist.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Stanley Greene: The Death of a Poet|url=https://time.com/stanley-greene/|access-date=June 21, 2020|magazine=Time}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Anderson|first=Jon Lee|title=Stanley Greene, a War Photographer Who Stayed When Others Left|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/stanley-greene-a-war-photographer-who-stayed-when-others-left|access-date=June 21, 2020|magazine=The New Yorker|date=May 24, 2017 |language=en-us}}</ref>
==Life and career== Greene was born to middle class parents in Brooklyn. Both his parents were actors. His father, Stanley Greene Sr., born in Harlem, was a union organizer, one of the first African Americans elected as an officer in the Screen Actors Guild,<ref name="heroes"/> and belonged to the Harlem Renaissance movement. Greene's father was blacklisted as a Communist in the 1950s and forced to take uncredited parts in movies.<ref name="calling"/> Of these small roles, perhaps his most well-known was as Uncle Henry in ''The Wiz'' (1978). Greene's parents gave him his first camera when he was eleven years old.<ref name = "giving">{{cite news | first = Dana |last = Thomas | title = Giving Back | url = http://www.newsweek.com/id/52853 | work = Newsweek | date = January 26, 2004 | access-date = September 20, 2008}}</ref>
Greene began his art career as a painter, but started taking photos as a means of cataloging material for his paintings. In 1971, when Greene was a member of the anti–Vietnam War movement and the Black Panther Party, his friend photographer W. Eugene Smith offered him space in his studio and encouraged him to study photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York and the San Francisco Art Institute.<ref name = "heroes">{{cite news | first = Lester |last = Sloan |title = Heroes of Photography: Stanley Greene | url = http://www.popphoto.com/Popular-Photography/Heroes-of-Photography-Stanley-Greene | work = Pop Photo.com | date = May–June 2007 | access-date = September 19, 2008}}</ref>
Greene held various jobs as a photographer, including taking pictures of rock bands and working at Newsday.<ref name="heroes"/> In 1986, he shot fashion photographs in Paris. He called himself a "dilettante, sitting in cafes, taking pictures of girls and doing heroin".<ref name="giving"/> After a friend died of AIDS, Greene kicked his drug habit and began to seriously pursue a photography career.<ref name="giving"/>
He began photojournalism in 1989, when his image ("Kisses to All, Berlin Wall") of a tutu-clad girl with a champagne bottle became a symbol of the fall of the Berlin Wall.<ref name="heroes"/> While working for the Paris-based photo agency Agence Vu in October 1993, Greene was trapped and almost killed in the White House in Moscow during a stand-off between President Boris Yeltsin and the parliament. He covered the war-torn countries Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iraq, Somalia, Croatia, Kashmir, and Lebanon.<ref name="heroes"/><ref name="calling"/> He took pictures of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994<ref name="calling"/> and the US Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.<ref name="heroes"/>
After 1994, Greene was best known for his documentation of the conflict in Chechnya, between rebels and the Russian Armed Forces, which was compiled in his 2004 book, ''Open Wound''.<ref name="heroes"/> These photos drew attention to the "suffering that has marked the latest surge in Chechnya's centuries-long struggle for independence from Russia".<ref name = "calling">{{cite news | first = Alan | last = Riding | title = Finding His Calling in Chechnya's Images of War; A Photojournalist's New Book Portrays the Devastation of a Bitter Conflict | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9805E3DB1F39F931A25752C1A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all | work = The New York Times | date = November 13, 2003 | access-date = September 21, 2008}}</ref>
In 2008, Greene revealed that he had hepatitis C, which he believed he had contracted from a contaminated razor while working in Chad in 2007. After controlling the disease with medication, he traveled to Afghanistan and photographed a story about "the crisis of drug abuse and infectious disease".<ref>{{cite news | first = Daryl | last = Lane | title = Stanley Greene: Photographing Illness While Confronting His Own |work = Photo District News | date = September 15, 2008}}</ref>
Stanley Greene co-founded NOOR Agency with fellow photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen in 2007. They launched their agency with their colleagues on September 7, 2007, at Visa Pour L'Image. Greene died in Paris, at the age of 68. He had been undergoing treatment for liver cancer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/business/media/stanley-greene-dead-war-photographer.html |title=Stanley Greene, Whose Camera Captured War's Brutality, Dies at 68 |first=James |last=Estrin |authorlink=James Estrin |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 19, 2017}}</ref>
== Bibliography== * {{cite book |title=Somnambule |year=1993 |others=With Delacorta |publisher=Distributed Art Publishers |isbn=978-2862340586}} * {{cite book |title=Open Wound: Chechnya 1994–2003 |publisher=Trolley Books |year=2004 |others=With Andre Glucksmann and Christian Caujolle |isbn=978-1904563013}} * {{cite book |title=Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster |year=2006 |others=With Thomas Dworzak, Kadir van Lohuizen, and Paolo Pellegrin |publisher=Ram Distribution |isbn=978-9053305058}} * {{cite book |title=Chalk Lines: The Caucasus |year=2007 |publisher=Editions Intervalles |isbn=978-2916355108}} * {{cite book |title=Black Passport |publisher=Mets & Schilt |year=2009 |others=With Teun van der Heijden |isbn=978-1597111416}}
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== External links== * {{Official website|http://noorimages.com/photographer/greene/}}
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