and territorial disputes in Hungary, China, Palestine, India, Spain, Ceylon and Japan. In 1950, assigned to the Aga Khan's wedding, he and journalist Dita Comacho documented growing tension between Iran and the Soviet Union, and after extending their stay to six weeks produced an eight-page cover story in Life. From the mid-1950s he photographed Europe's religious architecture, including St Mark's, in Venice, and the opulent monuments of the Vatican. In 1955 curator Edward Steichen included eight of his images in his world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition, seen by 9 million visitors, The Family of Man; a woman voting in France, a couple silhouetted in a doorway in China, a river reflecting a misty sky between rugged mountains in China, a family's summer harvest in Italy, a farmer sowing seeds by hand in China, a mine worker in the Belgian Congo, a large team of men straining to tow a barge upstream on a turbulent river in China, and children dancing in a circle, also in China. The September 22, 1961 issue of Life featured a photo essay of JFK Airport (then known as Idlewild Airport) by him. Many of the photos were of the newly built Pan Am Terminal, Worldport. Personal life In 1964 he married Shirley Farmer. Kessel died in Southampton, New York 26 March 1995. References 1902 births 1995 deaths American photojournalists Architectural photographers War photographers Ukrainian Jews Federal Art Project artists