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Exhibition:
Connections: Biographies |
Connections
| Connections Biographies
James
P Blair | Melissa Farlow | Raymond
K Gehman | Chris Johns | George
Mobley | Michael Nichols | Joel
Sartore | Mike de Sousa | James
L Stanfield | Medford Taylor
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James
Blair
James Blair
was born April 14, 1931 in Philadelphia. It was in
Pittsburgh where he began his career as a television
film photographer and reporter for WIIC-NBC. Between
1950-1952, he joined the staff of the Pittsburgh Photographic
Library, headed by Roy Stryker at the University of
Pittsburgh. Later, Blair also worked as a Time-Life
stringer before becoming a National Geographic photographer
in 1962.
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Melissa
Farlow
Melissa Farlow
photographed a total of 17 years for newspapers including
The Pittsburgh Press and the Courier-Journal and Louisville
Times. While in Louisville, she was a member of the
photographic staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for their
coverage of desegregation in the public schools. Twice
a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith grant for humanistic
photography, Farlow's work has won several awards
including a portfolio honour in the National Press
Photographers' Association Pictures of the Year competition.
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Raymond
K Gehman
Raymond Gehman
is a photographer and editor for the National Geographic
magazine.
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Chris
Johns
Chris Johns
was born in Oregon in April 1951. He studied agriculture
at Oregon State University and photojournalism at
the University of Minnesota. Johns, who began his
photography career as a staff member at the Topeka
Capital-Journal, was named National Press Photographers
Association’s Newspaper Photographer of the Year
in 1979. He resides in the Blue Ridge mountains of
Virginia with his wife and daughters.
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George
Mobley
George Mobley
grew up on a small farm near the California-Oregon
state line. He attended Linfield College in Oregon
for a year, and then entered the Air Force, where
he worked in the information services field. After
his discharge, he matriculated at the University of
Missouri, graduating with a degree in journalism.
Mobley was a staff photographer for National Geographic
magazine for 33 years.
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Michael
Nichols
Born in Muscle
Shoals, Alabama, Michael "Nick" Nichols'
first contact with photography came when he was assigned
to a photography unit in the Army. Later, he studied
photojournalism at the University of North Alabama,
where he met Black Star Agency photographer Charles
Moore. Black Star showed his work to the German GEO
magazine which gave him his first magazine assignment.
In 1983 he joined Magnum Photos as a nominee and in
1988 was named a member.
In his book, "Brutal Kinship," co-authored
with Jane Goodall, Michael joins forces to present
ways in which chimpanzees are physically, emotionally,
and intellectually closer to us than we ever imagined.
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Jeff Foster
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Joel
Sartore
Joel Sartore,
was born in Ponca City, Oklahoma, and obtained a degree
in journalism from the University of Nebraska in 1985.
He began his career at the Wichita Eagle and became
the newspaper’s director of photography in 1990.
Sartore’s work has earned many awards, including
a sweepstakes award for photography from the Inland
Daily Press Association in 1987 and an Award of Excellence
in the Magazine Photographer of the Year category
at the National Press Photographers Association’s
Pictures of the Year competition in 1992. He was a
guest speaker at the National Press Photographers
Association’s Flying Short Course in the fall
of 1993.
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Mike
de Sousa
Mike was born
in Hampshire, England, 1961. Mike began his creative
career with commissions for music composition and
photography, then went on to work with London Contemporary
Dance Theatre during the late 1980's and early 1990's
before broadening his creative output as an author,
artist, and designer.
Mike wrote the poetry for Connections,
designed and curated the exhibition, and is the Director
of AbleStable.
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James
L Stanfield
James L. Stanfield's
ability to tackle monumental subjects has enriched
articles on the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire,
the coronation of the shah of Iran, and the Vatican.
Stanfield’s work in and around St. Peter’s
grew into a best-selling National Geographic volume,
Inside the Vatican.
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Medford
Taylor
Medford Taylor
was born in Conway, North Carolina. He attended High
Point University in his home state, graduating with
a bachelor of science degree. After completing five
years as a naval officer, he continued his education
at the University of Missouri, majoring in photojournalism.
Following his schooling, Taylor became a staff photographer
for the Houston Chronicle and subsequently the (Norfolk)
Virginia Pilot. While based in Washington, DC, he
freelanced for
Time and Newsweek, and began shooting assignments
from the National Geographic Society in 1984.
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