Bill Eppridge, an established photographer and photojournalist, died last Thursday in Danbury, Connecticut.
This illustration of Eppridge was accompanied by the following caption: Eppridge will admit to being one of the world’s greatest photographers; he is also the thinnest man alive, and he claims to be sexless. (This, however, has yet to be substantiated.)
Eppridge was The Varsity’s director of photography from 1955–1956. He spent a year at U of T studying archaeology, but transferred to the University of Missouri in order to pursue journalism. Epperidge ultimately went on to take photos for LIFE magazine and National Geographic.
It was during his time at LIFE that Eppridge established himself as one of the most important photographers of the 1960s, and later, the twentieth century. His work reflected the spirit of the 1960s as he documented everything from Woodstock and the Beatles to a harrowing series on the lives of a pair of heroin addicts. His most iconic image captured the assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy, taken moments after Kennedy was gunned down in a Los Angeles hotel in 1968.
The Varsity delved into its archives and found some of Epperidge’s photographs from his brief time with us:
