I found the photography of Paul Schutzer really remarkable and previously published three posts with Paul’s photos – New York Fashion and Israel 1960 and Italian Men. And today Lenny Ben-David emailed me with a link to the Time magazine sideshow. Lenny wrote that Paul Schutzer “was embedded with an Israeli armored column moving into Gaza in the 1967 war. His half-track took a direct hit”. They found this film roll in the camera next to Paul Schutzer’s body. I went back to the archive and this is the last roll:
And these are the photos from the last roll:
You can see from the roll that Paul was taking several photos of this moving tank and then the tank takes a direct hit. Next is the direct hit on Paul Schutzer’s track and the three last photos by Paul Schutzer.
If you look at the first photo in the roll (above), you will see that this must have been Paul’s last self portrait ,significantly with his head upside down, a clear premonition that the last photo of that roll would be a direct blast. I couldn’t find this photo in the archive, perhaps someone at LIFE thought this was a mistake, through away photo, while it’s clearly the most significant photo in the roll.
Photos licensed for personal non-commercial use only by LIFE
Further Reading:
LIFE – Israel 1960 by Paul Schutzer
LIFE – The Italian Men by Paul Schutzer
LIFE – New York Fashion by Paul Schutzer
