Marty Lederhandler, AP lensman for 66 years, dies

[March 26, 2010]  NEW YORK (AP) -- An Associated Press photographer who captured on film every U.S. president from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton and climaxed a 66-year career with an iconic shot of the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks has died.

Marty Lederhandler covered every kind of news and chalked up a roster of celebrity subjects perhaps unmatched by any other lensman of his time. He retired from AP in 2001.

His companion says he died Thursday at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. He was 92 and had suffered a stroke.

AP President and chief executive Tom Curley says Lederhandler's "keen eye for the right moment and the revealing image helped AP to document history for news audiences around the world."

[Associated Press; By RICHARD PYLE]

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