1. Grey Villet was an American photojournalist of South African origin.
16 Facts About Grey Villet
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Grey Villet was "Magazine Photographer of the Year" in the United States in 1956.
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Charles De Gouret Villet was born on 16 August 1927 in Beaufort West, in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
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Grey Villet got the job and would go on to work for Life until it closed down in 1972.
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Grey Villet would go on to win many other NPPA and World Press Photo awards, becoming known for his fly on the wall approach.
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Grey Villet was present in Cuba during the last days of the revolution and, for a time, accompanied Castro in the back of his car as he drove into Havana surrounded by his supporters.
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In 1962 Grey Villet visited the controversial Synanon House drug rehabilitation center in Santa Monica, California, and produced a feature called A Tunnel Back into the Human Race.
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Grey Villet was assigned to the story, to be titled the Lash of Success.
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In March 1966, Life published photos by Grey Villet of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who were sentenced at the end of the 1950s for violating Virginia's laws prohibiting mixed marriages.
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Grey Villet was assigned to the story in 1965 and spent two weeks with the Lovings.
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Grey Villet had given many of the photos to the Lovings and their daughter shared them with Buirski.
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Grey Villet's photographs were then exhibited in 2012 at an exhibition called The Loving Story, held at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
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Barbara Grey Villet subsequently issued the photographs in book form as The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait.
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Grey Villet met Life journalist Barbara Cummiskey, one of the magazine's few female writers, while working on the Lash of Success assignment.
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Grey Villet did no photography but occupied himself doing wood carvings.
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Grey Villet died on February 2,2000, in Shushan, New York.