A few days later, Mr. Baquet recalled, Mr. Cunningham walked into the office and dropped off a print. PhotoA car from the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home delivered the coffin that carried Mr. Cunningham. Standing outside the church, David Wolfson, a longtime friend of Mr. Cunningham’s, told a story about a birthday dinner that was organized last October in Mr. Cunningham’s honor. A documentary was made about Mr. Cunningham in 2010, and he said until the end of his life that he had not seen it. In life, Mr. Cunningham had always been a little elusive, yet here he was surrounded by the patchwork of families he had amassed.

Source: New York Times July 01, 2016 00:19 UTC