Steve Starr

Last updated
Steve Starr
Alma mater San José State University
OccupationPhotographer
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, 1970

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]

Contents

Education

Starr attended San José State University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1967.

Career

Starr's April 1969 photo of armed African-American student Vietnam War protesters at Cornell University was awarded the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography Campus Guns.jpg
Starr's April 1969 photo of armed African-American student Vietnam War protesters at Cornell University was awarded the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography

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]

Personal life

Starr married Marilynne Starr, whom 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]

Awards

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Spot News Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  2. 1 2 "Steve Starr | LinkedIn". LinkedIn . Retrieved 3 October 2020.
  3. Lucy Li (April 15, 2009). "Snapshot in History: Remembering the Exit in Photos". The Cornell Daily Sun.
  4. George Lowery (April 16, 2009). "A campus takeover that symbolized an era of change". Cornell Chronicle.