Gerry Cranham

Non-media types won't know that there is creative rivalry between reporters and photographers. Scribes persist with the belief that words defeat images. But often the finest 'snappers' see permanence that writers can't fully capture on a keyboard. Then, cameras triumph over laptops. Gerry Cranham, who died on Friday aged 94, helped start a wave of innovative picture taking in an age when 48-megapixel camera phones were non-existent and print was everything. And when Cranham finished taking shots of Muhammad Ali, Pele and the Olympics, he turned his restless eye mostly...