Johnny Donnels - Artist Info

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John Donnels
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    Obituary. Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2009

    Johnny Donnels, 84, a New Orleans photographer who won acclaim for his pictures of the people and places in the French Quarter, died March 19 of a heart attack at Tulane University Hospital, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.

    Donnels had fallen outside his Desire Street home last week and broken his hip, his close friend Cheron Brylski told the Associated Press.

    Donnels had a gallery on St. Peter Street near Jackson Square for more than 50 years. He lived in the Quarter most of his life and was playwright Tennessee Williams' neighbor in the 1940s.

    His work, chronicled in his 1999 book "Johnny Donnels' IntoPhotography," has been exhibited...

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