Legendary Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah, who died Tuesday at the age of 81, left us with both a generation of photographers who learned at his feet and a stark body of work depicting many of the greats; Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Janis Joplin. He also left us something that's gotten less celebration—his son, former US Weekly staffer Timothy McDarrah, who was sentenced in April to six years in prison in an online pedophile sting operation.
The younger McDarrah apparently maintained an address until his incarceration at the Greenwich Village home of his father, who remained an active participant in day-to-day operations at the Voice. Father and son even wrote several books together, centered around the senior McDarrah's photographs, including one on the Beat Generation and another on the history of Gay Pride.
Obituaries of Fred McDarrah ran in hundreds of newspapers across the country this week, and we're having trouble finding a single one that mentioned the connection between the two McDarrahs. We do find it awfully quaint that the New York Times' obit identifies McDarrah as survived by, among others, his son "Timothy, of Loretto, Pa., and New York City." Loretta, PA is the location of the Federal Correctional Institution where McDarrah is inmate #53256-054.
