“شاهرخ حاتمی ” پدر فتو ژورنالیسم ايران، بعد از 57 سال ثبت وقایع بزرگ ایران و جهان، دیروز ۲۵ نوامبر ۲۰۱۷ و در ۹۱ سالگی دردر اکسي لوشاتو در شمال فرانسه درگذشت.
حاتمی عكاسي خبری را در نخستين روزهاي جواني، از کودتای ۲۸ مرداد آغاز کرد و پس از آن بسيار حوادث مهم ايران و جهان را ثبت كرد و با هنرمندان بزرگی همچون بیتلز، استیو مک کوئین، بریژیت باردو، کاترین دانو، الیزابت تیلور، رومی اشنایدر و بسیاری دیگر از بزرگان هالیود و همچنين با مجلاتي همچون لايف، پاري ماچ و ال سالها همکاری داشت. در کنار رابطه نزدیکی که با طرح لباس فرانسوی، کوکو شانل داشت، دوستی عمیق نیز با بازیگر مشهور سینما شارون تیت ( همسر رومان پولانسکی) داشت و در جریان کشته شدن او توسط خانواده منسن، حاتمی در دادگاه پر سروصدای ان روزها به عنوان یکی از نزدیکان خانم تیت در دادگاه شهادت داد.
Sharon Tate was an American actress and model, as well as the wife of director Roman Polański. خانم شارون تیت بازیگر آمریکایی و همسر رمان پولانسکی که توسط گروه منسون به قتل رسید
حاتمی در جریان انقلاب ایران با آیت الله [امام] خمینی و یارانش در نوفللوشاتو آشنا شد و همراه وی در ۱۲ بهمن ۵۷ به ایران آمد اما پس از مدتی از ایران مهاجرت کرد و تا پايان عمر ، وطن خود را نديد. در بخش عکاسی خبری و سیاسی نیز از حاتمی عکس های مهمی به یادگار مانده است. از جمله میتوان به عکس امام خمینی در هواپیمای بازگشت به ایران، تصویر جمال عبدو ناصر رئیس جمهور مصر ، تصویر انور سادات در کنار رییس جمهور اسرایل در جریان گفتگو های صلح ۱۹۷۹ اشاره کرد.
آلفرد یعقوب زاده عکاس ایرانی – فرانسوی مقیم پاریس در باره حاتمی گفت:”در سالهای پایانی زندگیش مدتي کنارش بودم و از مصاحبت و دوستی اين هنرمند بزرگ بهره بردم. ریههای شاهرخ دچار مشکل بود و او به همین دلیل مدام به بیمارستان رفت و آمد داشت. او بار آخر چهار ماه در بیمارستان بستری بود. در عكاسي بسيار خلاق و صاحب سبك بود و به حق بايد او را پدر فتو ژورنالیسم ایران دانست. شاهرخ، عکاسی از جنس مصدق بود، آرام ، مصمم و پر تلاش.”
روحش شاد
The Ayatollah Khomeini during his historic flight from France to Iran on February 1, 1979. Iran’s Supreme Leader had been exiled in France since 1978. امام خمینی در پرواز بازگشت به ایران
Famed Iranian photo-journalist Shahrokh Hatami, who covered front-page events from the revolution in his homeland to the Beatles in their early days has died aged 91. His partner, the actress Francine Carpon, told AFP Saturday he died from “pulmonary insufficiency at Auxi-le-Chateau” in northern France. Born in Tehran in 1928 and beginning life as a journalist for an Iranian newspaper, Hatami’s roving lens captured a huge variety of events as he let his camera tell the story from 1950.
Over seven decades he captured a dizzying array of stories, providing notably for Life magazine the visual backdrop for the overthrow in 1953 of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh in a US-sponsored coup. A quarter of a century later and he would be snapping
شاهرخ حاتمی Shahrokh Hatami
dramatic images of the Iranian Revolution — he was on the plane which took the Ayatollah Khomeini back to Iran in February 1979.
There was also plenty of room for tracking celebrities, not least the Beatles, whom he shot in Liverpool’s iconic Cavern Club, sent by Paris Match as Beatlemania began to take off. From the early 1960s he had also been working for Elle, offering a string of cover shots of some of the most famous women in the world such as Brigitte Bardot, Elizabeth Taylor and Ursula Andress.
Modest man
But Hatami did not want any of the limelight for himself and was known by his inner circle to be a discreet and modest man. A close friend and personal photographer of actress Sharon Tate, Hatami testified at her murder trial after she was killed in August 1969 along with four others by members of the Manson Family at the home she shared with husband Roman Polanski. Hatami was also a friend and photographer to Paris fashion designer Coco Chanel, snapping several of her 1960s creations.
The rarified world of motion pictures also allured him — he worked as special magazine photographer notably on the sets of Woody Allen’s “What’s New Pussycat?”, Jean Luc Godard’s “Le Mepris” and Francois Truffaut’s “Fahrenheit 451”. Switching back into politics, he covered the opening of the Suez Canal while his website listed friends as including several Middle East leaders including Egyptian presidents Nasser and Sadat and Jordan’s King Hussein. On the set of “Rosemary’s Baby” he became friends with Mia Farrow and directed a short 1968 documentary, “Mia and Roman”, during the making of the movie.
Steve McQueen in The Thomas Crown Affair, a stylish 1968 crime film.
استیو مک کوین
extremely rare color photos of the Beatles at the legendary Cavern Club in 1963.
تصویر بسیار مهمی از گروه بیتلز در آغاز راه هنریشان
Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair, a stylish 1968 crime film
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin & Egyptian President Anwar Al Sadat at the Israel/Egypt peace talks in 1977.
Violent protests in Tehran, Iran on Sunday, February 11, 1979.
در خلال انقلاب ایران ۱۹۷۹
Gamal Abdel Nasser, the second President of Egypt from 1956 until 1970.
Violent protests in Tehran, Iran on Sunday, February 11, 1979.
تظاهرات خونین در انقلاب ایران ۱۳۵۸
Security protects President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt as his car makes its way through the streets.
جمال عبدو ناصر در میان طرفدارانش
Paris fashion designer Coco Chanel was one of the most iconic figures of the 20th-century. The French fashion house that she started, Chanel, is recognized as one of the most established in haute couture and a symbol of sophistication, romance, and glamor.
Tamara Nyman was one of the top fashion models in Europe during the 1960s, appearing in Vogue, Glamour, and Mademoiselle, among countless other magazines.
In 1966, she married Prince Alfred of Liechtenstein and became Baroness von Landskron.
Hatami was both a personal trusted friend of Mademoiselle Coco Chanel and the photographer of her fashion creations from 1962 until 1969
Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair, a stylish 1968 crime film
Hatami’s friendship with Coco Chanel, gave him an access to private moments, where the fashion designer, notorious for her control over the smallest detail, let her guard down and revealed a tenderness that was often hidden from public view.
Paris fashion designer Coco Chanel was one of the most iconic figures of the 20th-century. The French fashion house that she started, Chanel, is recognized as one of the most established in haute couture and a symbol of sophistication, romance, and glamor.
An early series of portraits of The Beatles, circa 1963. Sent to Liverpool by Paris Match magazine to cover the Beatlemania phenomenon, Hatami managed to gain access backstage at the legendary Cavern Club and captured these images of the Fab Four.
Paris fashion designer Coco Chanel was one of the most iconic figures of the 20th-century. The French fashion house that she started, Chanel, is recognized as one of the most established in haute couture and a symbol of sophistication, romance, and glamor.