Adam Nossiter

He was the lead plaintiff in the landmark 1997 lawsuit Pigford v. Glickman, an attempt to redress the Agriculture Department’s historic racism.

His photojournalism festival, Visa Pour l’Image, brought to wide attention images of war and suffering. The French president called him “a great defender of reality.”

His idealized images of heroic Palestinian women, men and children made their way into hundreds of homes as inspirational posters.

Maintaining that access to abortion was as much a matter of economic equality as women’s rights, she successfully championed state reimbursement for abortions.

“The Revolution of Everyday Life,” published in 1967, was his cri de coeur against mindless work, materialism and authority.

One of five booksellers kidnapped by Chinese officials in 2015, Mr. Lam spoke out after his release and became an international cause célèbre.

A minister disfigured in an attack on his life, he became what one historian called “the most visible white activist in the Mississippi movement.”

A counterculture icon with broad appeal, he compared himself to Bob Dylan and developed an especially fervent following among working-class youth.

By 2016, when he retired from the parent company of glossy magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, print was seriously struggling.

He used a geographer’s tools to demonstrate that North Vietnamese civilian infrastructure had been deliberately attacked, threatening millions of lives.