Dallas Kinney

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Dallas Kinney (born 1937 in Buckeye, Hardin County, Iowa), is a photojournalist who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize in photography for his photographs of Florida migrant workers for The Palm Beach Post . [1] As a newspaper journalist, Dallas has also worked for the Washington Evening Journal in Washington, Iowa, The Dubuque Telegraph Herald , in Dubuque, Iowa, The Miami Herald in Miami, Florida, and The Philadelphia Inquirer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Kinney was a student of photographer Ansel Adams in Carmel, California. Kinney has a passion for and continuing desire to create "Ansel Adams-like" photographs as they exist in current times.

In addition to the Pulitzer, Kinney has received the following awards: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, World Press Association/Photojournalism, National Press Photographers Association Regional, Iowa News Photographer of the Year, Florida News Photographer of the Year.[ citation needed ]

Kinney resides with his wife Martha near the North Georgia mountain town of Dahlonega.

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References

  1. "Dallas Kinney of Palm Beach Post, West Palm Beach, FL". The Pulitzer Prizes. 1970.