Photographer Franz Berko dies
Noted Aspen photographer Ferenc “Franz” Berko died Saturday in Grand Junction, of complications following a stroke. He was 84 years old.
A gathering of those who knew Berko and were affected by his life, his work and his presence in Aspen is being planned.
Berko came to Aspen in the late 1940s, part of the first wave of artists and intellectuals who came here and played a major part in the “rebirth” of the town that began with the Goethe Bicentennial Convocation in 1949. Berko’s photographs, taken over the five decades since then, have documented the changes that have transformed Aspen.
A full report on this important figure in Aspen’s history will appear in The Aspen Times later this week.
PHOTOS: Trout Unlimited, Roaring Fork Conservancy lead trout release with third graders
Over this past school year, third graders from Two Rivers Community School in Glenwood Springs have watched as their little rainbow trout went from eggs to fingerlings — essentially baby trout — inside a tank in their classroom.
Injured skier has ‘incredible’ self-rescue below Castle Peak
There wasn’t much Marieta Bialek and Austin Zedak were concerned about.
