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His career also included an extensive documentation of Jean
Ritchie's work and his photographs illustrated many of her books. In 1996 the Ritchie Pickow Photographic Archive was acquired by the James Hardiman Library,
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Pickow, who had been in declining health for some time, died
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folk revival scene intended to be shown on the BBC. This never happened, however, and ten years later Alan's daughter
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US photographer and film-maker who chronicled the heyday of folk and jazz
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features what one reviewer called "killer footage" of performances by
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for which he was the principal photographer, then partner.
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His photographs depict many musical artists, ranging from
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Pickow and
Ritchie met in 1948 at a square dance at the
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jamming every night in a tiny cabin at the left-wing
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