New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham dies at 87

New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham arrives before the Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2016 collection during New York Fashion Week in the Manhattan borough of New York, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bill Cunningham, the celebrated New York Times fashion photographer known for his shots of emerging trends on the streets of New York City, died on Saturday at age of 87 after being hospitalized for a stroke.

Cunningham worked for the New York Times for nearly 40 years, operating "as a dedicated chronicler of fashion and as an unlikely cultural anthropologist," the newspaper said.