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The Lives They Lived: Artists Remember Cultural Heroes We Lost

By Maria Popova

Last month, I had the pleasure — as much as writing about a dead personal hero can be called a “pleasure” — of contributing to The New York Times’ annual The Lives They Lived series, commemorating cultural icons whom we lost in the past year. (It’s of little surprise I chose Ray Bradbury.) Among the other entries were a number of visual remembrances — including Christoph Niemann’s soul-stirring Sendak tribute — of such luminaries as Nora Ephron, Neil Armstrong, and Sally Ride. Gathered here are some favorites.

Debbie Millman honors Sally Ride in a handmade visual essay of felt typography soft-sculpted onto felt fabric.
Conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty recreates Meg Ryan’s soliloquy from Nora Ephron’s ‘When Harry Met Sally’ in a collage using letters cut from Ephron’s obituary in The New York Times.
Berlin-based illustrator and graphic designer Katrin Rodegast celebrates the jazz composer Dave Brubeck by layering black and white paper.
Artist Winnie Truong recalls some of his most famous looks from the manual ‘Cutting Hair the Vidal Sassoon Way,’ the blueprint to the coiffure aesthetic that defined the 1950s and 1960s.
A rendering of Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 suit by artist Tom Sachs, based on the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal.

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Published January 4, 2013
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https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/01/04/the-lives-they-lived/
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