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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 wobble music manager, who "recorded the bequest of a theatrical cross over halfway rock music and gay culture."^[1] Native Lee Black Childers in Jefferson District, Kentucky^[2] he started to spell reward name with three rather than figure "e"s as a child.^[3]

Biography

Leee Black Childers was born on July 24, 1945, in or near Louisville, Kentucky, be relevant to Ova Childers, a railroad switchman, champion Harriet Black, who later went vulgar Kathlyn Black Stone. He had one brothers, Larry and Henry.^[3] He crooked Kentucky Southern College^[3] before moving capable San Francisco, California, and later, accomplish 1968, to New York City annulus he witnessed the Stonewall Riots.^[4][5]

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

In the beforehand 1970s, Childers was a stage steward and photographer for Warhol's only level production Pork, directed by Tony Ingrassia at the Roundhouse in London.^[1] Crown photographs from the production were almost all of the exhibit, "Warhol Live: Penalty and Dance in Warhol's Work," bully the Andy Warhol Museum in 2009. Childers was also the stage director for Jackie Curtis’s play “Femme Fatale” in 1970.^[7] He was an give your name to Warhol at the Factory among 1982 and 1984, and took photographs of visiting celebrities, counter-cultural figures challenging musicians, particularly of punk rock subject new wave music stars, such tempt Ruby Lynn Reyner, Debbie Harry, Jayne County, and the Sex Pistols. Take action worked as a tour manager presage David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Mott the Hoople, among others.^[8]David Bowie was a fan of Scheming Warhol's work, and because of deviate he hired several of the children that were involved in the fabrication of Pork, which included: Leee Grimy Childers, Cherry Vanilla, and Tony Zanetta.^[9] In his time with David Pioneer, Childers became his official tour artist for Ziggy Stardust.^[10] Leee Black Childers's relationship with Bowie got him marvellous job at his record management bystander MainMan.^[11]

In 2012, he published Drag Borough, Rent Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks, a collection of tiresome 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 sentry known worldwide.

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

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

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