
You’ve heard the joke about music criticism. It’s like dancing about architecture. There’s something similar about trying to use words to capture a man who had mastered the art, the heft, and the weight of the image.
Heinz Kluetmeier, who died on Jan. 14 at the age of 82 due to complications with Parkinson's disease and a stroke, didn’t take photos, he gave photos. Putting into the public domain visual gems that told stories, evoked feelings, memorialized events, and sometimes, literally, reset limits of possibility.