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Mike Lipack, former Day by day Information’ beloved and gruff photograph editor dies at 72
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Mike Lipack, former Day by day Information’ beloved and gruff photograph editor dies at 72

Last updated: April 2, 2025 10:21 pm
Editorial Board Published April 2, 2025
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As a result of it was.

With a cigarette dangling from his lips, and suspenders stretching on either side of his pot stomach, Lipack might simply go for J. Jonah Jameson in a Spider Man film.

New York Day by day Information photographer Susan Watts and Director of Pictures Michael Lipack on the opening of Watts’ out of doors photograph gallery exhibit, Milestones for Restoration, in Battery Park in Manhattan in 2007. (Julia Xanthos Liddy / New York Day by day Information)People cool off from an open fire hydrant at 113th St. and Second Ave. in Manhattan, New York, on June 10, 1984. (Mike Lipack / New York Daily News)Mike Lipack’s photograph of individuals cooling off from an open fireplace hydrant at 113th St. and Second Ave. in Manhattan in 1984. (Mike Lipack / New York Day by day Information)

He later grew to become deputy director of images earlier than taking up as director and working the entire present.

New York Daily News Deputy Director of Photography Mike Lipack is pictured in 2005. (Rebecca McAlpin for New York Daily News)New York Day by day Information Deputy Director of Pictures Mike Lipack is pictured in 2005. (Rebecca McAlpin for New York Day by day Information)

However he preferred her stuff, and gave her an opportunity, she mentioned.

“He said, ‘It won’t make you rich but you’ll pay your rent,’” Watts recalled. “He gave me a shot. He gave everybody a shot if he saw something in you.”

Regardless of a gruff exterior that chased some would-be photographers away, Lipack modified the lives of many who caught it out.

Mike Lipack (foreground) and Mark Bonifacio are pictured in the New York Daily News' Manhattan office on April 3, 2003. (Jo Barefoot / New York Daily News)Mike Lipack (foreground) and Mark Bonifacio within the New York Day by day Information’ Manhattan workplace on April 3, 2003. (Jo Barefoot / New York Day by day Information)

It wasn’t sufficient to return again with images of a grieving household at a funeral, or a police automotive subsequent to a stretched yellow crime scene tape. Lipack needed one thing completely different, one thing distinctive.

“Most of the ones who did well will tell you that he made them think,” mentioned Jo Barefoot, one other former colleague. “He taught them how to be better. He took pride in how they each put their heart in it “

A female construction worker is pictured with her male coworkers during a lunch break in 2002. (Photo by Michael Lipack / New York Daily News)A female construction worker is pictured with her male coworkers during a lunch break in 2002. (Photo by Michael Lipack / New York Daily News)

He even took his work home with him, which wasn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“My dad would set up field trips,” she mentioned. “It was a big deal. My teacher was so happy.”

Mike Lipack, right, is filmed for a Bravo television series on Friday, August 26, 2005. (Chet Gordon for New York Daily News)Mike Lipack, proper, is filmed for a Bravo tv collection on the Day by day Information in 2005. (Chet Gordon for New York Day by day Information)

Funeral companies for Lipack might be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday at Jerusalem Memorial Chapel on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown, L.I.

Lipack leaves behind Randi, a son, Matthew, 5 grandchildren and Susan, his spouse of practically 50 years.

A woman is rescued from the East River by police on Feb. 19, 1984. (Mike Lipack / New York Daily News)A girl is rescued from the East River by police on Feb. 19, 1984. (Mike Lipack / New York Day by day Information)

He additionally leaves behind three generations of photographers for whom the large image took on a special that means.

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