Dirck Halstead
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- Dirck Halstead is one of the heavyweights of 20th and 21st century photojournalism. He has covered everything from Vietnam to modern US Presidential politics and has repeatedly been recognized by his peers as being one of the top photojournalists. His photographs have appeared on 47 covers of Time Magazine. In 1992 Halstead played an instrumental part in the formation of Video News International (VNI) that in turn started what is now the Platypus movement to teach still photographers how to cross the barrier between print and video.
Halstead is now a senior fellow in photojournalism at The Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has won the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Picture of the Year award twice; the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the fall of Saigon; and two Eisie Awards from the Columbia University School of Journalism. In 2002, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the White House News Photographers Association (WHNPA), and in 2004, he was honored with the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award. The University of Missouri presented him with the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism in 2007.
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