Shepard Sherbell

Shepard Sherbell (September 12, 1944 – August 3, 2018) was an American photographer and journalist.

Biography Sherbell was born in Brooklyn. In 1966, while he was a student at Columbia University, he published a poetry magazine, East Side Review. Contributors included LeRoi Jones, Allen Ginsberg, and Norman Mailer. The issue appeared in February 1966. Due to a lack of funding, Sherbell was unable to publish any further issues of the magazine.

In the late 1960s, Sherbell moved to London. At the time of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Sherbell was living in Manhattan near the World Trade Center. The photographs he took that day were published worldwide.

Sherbell died of acute heart failure in 2018 at the age of 73. He had two sisters, was married and divorced twice, and had no children.