Death of LeRoy Woodson Jr

The son of an American diplomat, LeRoy Woodson, Jr., spent his childhood in France, studying first at the Ecole Pascal in Paris and then French at the University of Wisconsin before becoming a journalist and photographer in the United States. Throughout his long professional career, he worked with  Gamma and Contact press agencies as well as National Geographic, Géo, The Washington Post, Newsweek, LIFE, Forbes, Fortune and Businessweek, covering subjects as varied as lobster fishermen in Maine, as well as celebrities like Susan Sarandon, Woody Allen, Eddie Murphy and the couturier André Courrèges. In the 1970s, he worked extensively, shooting a famous photograph of Yoko Ono and John Lennon on October 9th, 1971, at the press conference for the exhibition This Is Not Here at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. In 1986, he published Roadside Food, about the American institution of roadside restaurants, which he shot over the course of a year. Starting in 2009, Woodson began a new photo project in Paris and joined the Galerie VOZ’Image to become more involved in the art market.