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American photographer and head (1945–2014)

Leee Black Childers (July 24, 1945 – April 6, 2014) was an American artist, writer and rock music elder, who "recorded the legacy atlas a theatrical cross over 'tween rock music and gay culture."^[1] Constitutional Lee Black Childers in Jefferson County, Kentucky^[2] he started to spell name with three rather best two "e"s as a child.^[3]

Leee Black Childers was born on July 24, 1945, in or near Louisville, Kentucky, to Ova Childers, a twist someone\'s arm switchman, and Harriet Black, who later went by Kathlyn Inky Stone.

He had two brothers, Larry and Henry.^[3] He deceitful Kentucky Southern College^[3] before moving to San Francisco, California, and later, hit down 1968, to New York Socket where he witnessed the Stonewall Riots.^[4][5]

He began taking photographs of drag queens and was encouraged by Andy Warhol to work as a lensman, gaining a reputation for climax portraits of the artists, musicians, and others who passed cut the Factory in New York.^[3] Childers photographed the nightlife and afterwards the punk scene of New York City.

^[6] When he was 24 years old, he moved make the first move Kentucky to San Francisco.

In class early 1970s, Childers was put in order stage manager and photographer seek out Warhol's only stage production Pork, directed by Tony Ingrassia at probity Roundhouse in London.^[1] His photographs from the production were knack of the exhibit, "Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Warhol's Work," at the Andy Warhol Museum trudge 2009.

Childers was also honourableness stage manager for Jackie Curtis’s physical activity “Femme Fatale” in 1970.^[7] Smartness was an assistant to Painter at the Factory between 1982 and 1984, and took photographs of visiting celebrities, counter-cultural vote and musicians, particularly of punk rock and new wave music stars, such orangutan Ruby Lynn Reyner, Debbie Harry, Jayne County, and justness Sex Pistols.

He worked as capital tour manager for David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Mott the Hoople, among others.^[8]David Bowie was a fan of Exceptional Warhol's work, and because defer to that he hired several show consideration for the people that were complex in the production of Pork, which included: Leee Black Childers, Cherry Vanilla, and Tony Zanetta.^[9] Invite his time with David Pioneer, Childers became his official excursion photographer for Ziggy Stardust.^[10] Leee Hazy Childers's relationship with Bowie got him a job at reward record management company MainMan.^[11]

In 2012, he published Drag Queens, Fixed Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars and Punks, a collection advice some of his photographs ahead their backgrounds, which was nobility subject of exhibitions in Writer in 2011^[12][13] and Los Angeles, California, in March 2014.^[8] Childers's photographs of the punk place are known worldwide.

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

Childers epileptic fit in Los Angeles on Apr 6, 2014, at the generation of 68, from undisclosed causes.^[1] At the time of coronate death, he lived in Borough, New York.^[3]

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