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October 12th, 2007  |  Published in books, culture, design, history

Alexandra Boulat, War Photographer, 45.

William Zimmer, Critic With SoHo Focus, 61.

Charles Griffith, ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Screenwriter, 77.

Walter Kempowski, German Author and Diarist, 78< .

In the 1980s Mr. Kempowski ran a series of advertisements in German newspapers inviting people to send him documents, letters, diaries, reports or other recollections of their World War II experiences. His appeal drew an enormous response. He received mail from the prominent and the ordinary: doctors, soldiers and even high-ranking politicians.

Oswald M. Ungers, Design Theorist and Architect of Major German Projects, 81.

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