Steve Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer. [1] He has since retired from photography, and since 2014, has served as a Third Order Franciscan Brother at Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs. [2]
Steve Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer. [1] He has since retired from photography, and since 2014, has served as a Third Order Franciscan Brother at Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs. [2]
Starr attended San José State University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1967.
Starr worked at Associated Press bureaus in Los Angeles, New York City, Albany, New York, and Miami.
In 1970, his photograph the prior year, "Campus Guns," of armed African American protesters leaving Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University after negotiating an end to their occupation of the building, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography. [1] [3] [4]
Starr married Marilynne Starr, who he met as a San Jose State University student. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2020, he began work on an autobiography about his career and experiences as a photojournalist and as a Franciscan brother. [2]
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