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Steve Starr

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Starr's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of armed protestors at Cornell University

Steve Starr is an American photographer who won a Pulitzer Prize.[1]

Life

He worked for the Associated Press, Albany Bureau.

Starr attended and graduated from San José State University.

"Campus Guns," his photograph of armed African American protesters leaving Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University, won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1970.[1][2][3]

He married Marilynne Starr. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Awards

Works

  • Guns on Campus, 1969

References

  1. ^ a b c "Spot News Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  2. ^ Lucy Li (April 15, 2009). "Snapshot in History: Remembering the Exit in Photos". The Cornell Daily Sun.
  3. ^ George Lowery (April 16, 2009). "A campus takeover that symbolized an era of change". Cornell Chronicle.