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Newsday photographer Bill Senft dies at 90

Bill Senft, a Newsday photo department legend whose

Photo credit: Hank DiRocco | Bill Senft, a Newsday photo department legend whose pictures still line the walls of the newspaper's Melville office, died Saturday morning in Florida. He was 90.

Bill Senft, a Newsday photo department legend whose pictures still line the walls of the newspaper's Melville office, died Saturday morning in Florida. He was 90.

In 25 years at the newspaper, Senft shot everything from landscapes to civil rights leaders and celebrities with what former Newsday photographer Ken Spencer called an artistic eye.

Senft stumbled upon photography as a teenager,...

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