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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jon Thurber / The Bulletin
October 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES — William Claxton, the master photographer whose images of Chet Baker helped fuel the jazz trumpeter’s stardom in the 1950s and whose fashion photographs of his wife modeling a topless swimsuit were groundbreaking years later, has died. He was 80.
Claxton died....