BALTIMORE (AP) — Roberto Borea, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who produced thousands of compelling pictures from wars to the Olympics during a 30-year career with The Associated Press, died January 6. He was 51. Borea died at his home outside Baltimore from stomach cancer. He had been working as AP’s […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) – Barry L. Thumma, a retired Associated Press photographer who covered four presidents, has died. He was 56. Thumma died at home last week (November 25) in Lancaster, Pa., from complications with multiple myeloma. In his 20-year career with the AP, he traveled on more than 100 Air […]
Paul S. Conklin, the first official photographer of the Peace Corps and renowned for his ability to capture the warmth of the human spirit, has died. He was 74. Mr. Conklin, who as a freelancer shot the famous photograph of a Vietnam War protester placing a daisy in the barrel […]
Prizewinning Washington Post photographer Tom Kelley, 88, whose work appeared in that newspaper from 1938 until his retirement in 1973, died on June 25th. A member of the White House News Photographer’s Association, Kelley covered every president from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Richard M. Nixon.
Long-time WHNPA member Tom Craven, Jr. passed away on February 23rd, 2003. We featured a story on the Cravens in the October 2002 newsletter. Our condolences to his family and friends. His daughter, Lisa C. Trumps. The funeral was held March 28 at Arlington National Cemetary.
Pioneer White House Photographer Dies 11/25/02 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Marion Carpenter, one of the first female White House photographers who traveled with President Harry Truman and covered him daily, has died. Though Carpenter broke ground in her profession, she died alone and destitute at age […]