Anacleto Rapping
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| birth_date = Nov 26, 1954
| birth_place = San Jose, California, U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age |2017|9|17 |1954|11|26 |mf=yes}}
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| occupation = photographer, pedagogue
| years_active = 1978–2017
| spouse = Terrie L. Rapping (m. 1981)
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| children = Matthew, Ariel
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| website = [http://www.arapping.com arapping.com]
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Anacleto Rapping (November 26, 1954 – September 17, 2017) was an American photographer and pedagogue.
Education
Anacleto Rapping studied journalism at San Jose State University (class of 1978).
Career
As a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times for over two decades, Rapping covered presidential campaigns, Olympic Games, World Cup Soccer tournaments and the Academy Awards. He has also served as an instructor at Brooks Institute of Photography, where he stressed the importance of foreign travel.Rapping, A., [https://vimeo.com/44535556 A Brooks Documentary Project: South Africa Intro], Vimeo, 2013. Rapping also helped launch three new feature sections at the Los Angeles Times—Sunday Calendar, Home, and Outdoors.
Rapping previously worked for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut and the Thousand Oaks News Chronicle in California. He has taken assignments in South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United States. He has photographed four summer Olympic Games, one winter Olympics and three World Cup Soccer tournaments.World Journalism Institute, [http://www.worldji.com/people/view/86 Anacleto Rapping bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406170146/http://www.worldji.com/people/view/86 |date=2016-04-06 }}.
Rapping is also known for his portrait photography. Over the decades, subjects have included Don Cheadle, Keith Richards, David Woodard, Bjork, Dennis Hopper, Bill Clinton, Pat Boone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ben Affleck.Getty Images, [http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/anacleto-rapping?excludenudity=true&family=editorial&phrase=anacleto%20rapping&sort=mostpopular Anacleto Rapping].
Awards
Rapping has the distinct honor of sharing three Pulitzer Prizes for team coverage in news. Individually he received a Pulitzer nomination for his photography at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.Goodman, M., [http://www.strantmag.com/tag/anacleto-rapping/ "In Conversation with Anacleto Rapping"], Strant Magazine, Jul 2015. In 1986 he was awarded 2nd prize in the World Press Photo contest,World Press Photo, [http://www.worldpressphoto.org/people/anacleto-rapping Anacleto Rapping], 1987. and in 1996 he received three POYI awards.Pictures of the Year International, [http://www.poyi.org/55/54winners.html "Winners of the 54th Annual Pictures of the Year"], 1996.
Death
On September 17, 2017, at the age of 62, Rapping died after a 3-year battle with cancer.Schneider, I., [http://www.laobserved.com/intell/2017/10/anacleto.php "A salute to Anacleto Rapping, photographer"], LA Observed, Oct 15, 2017.
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Category:Pulitzer Prize winners
Category:Photographers from California
Category:20th-century American photographers
Category:American portrait photographers