Howard Chapnick
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Howard Chapnick (1922–1996) was an American editor, photo editor and a long-term leader of Black Star photo agency.
Biography
Chapnick was born in 1922 in Manhattan, New York. He graduated from New York University.
In 1940 Chapnick joined a recently founded photo agency, Black Star. During World War II he served in the United States Air Force. In 1946 he returned to Black Star. He formed a new department responsible for photo essays and books. He also worked to make and maintain a network of photographers around the world.
In 1964 Chapnick bought out the founders' shares and had been a president of the agency for 25 years.
He taught annual workshops at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. In 1994 he published a book called Truth Needs No Ally: Inside Photojournalism, summarising his many years of experience in the field of dealing with photojournalists.
Chapnick was a principal founder of the W. Eugene Smith competition and Memorial Fund, which awards grants for projects in humanist photography. After his death in 1996, the Fund established in his memory a grant to encourage and support leadership in fields ancillary to photojournalism.
Bibliography
- {{cite book| author = Chapnick H. | title = Truth Needs No Ally | location = Columbia| year = 1994 | publisher = University of Missouri| page = 384 }}
References
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- [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/29/nyregion/howard-chapnick-74-photo-agency-chief.html/The New York Times]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906183718/http://smithfund.org/uncategorized/the-howard-chapnick-legacy-a-collaboration-between-aperture-and-w-eugene-smith-memorial-fund W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund ]
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