Missouri Photo Workshop

{{Short description|Photojournalism school based at the Missouri School of Journalism}}

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| motto = Ostende veritatem cum a camera

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| mottoeng = Show truth with a camera

| established = {{Start date|1949}}

| type = Private

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| director = Jim Curley, David Rees

| academic_staff = 12

| students = 50

| city = Columbia

| state = Missouri

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| country = United States

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| campus = Rural

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| affiliations = Missouri School of Journalism

| website = {{URL|mophotoworkshop.org}}

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The Missouri Photo Workshop is an annual week-long photojournalism school based in Lee Hills Hall at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri.{{Citation |at=sec. News, p. 4C |work= St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publication-date=February 1, 1991 |title=Clifton Edom; Founded Photojournalism School |access-date= December 14, 2012 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB04D0FA20D6BFB&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D}}{{Citation |work= US Federal News |publication-date=January 16, 2008 |title= $846,000 Donation Given To Preserve Legacy Of Photojournalism At University Of Missouri |author=Emily Smith |access-date= December 14, 2012 |url= http://munews.missouri.edu/news-releases/2008/0116-photo-donation.php}} Founded in 1949 by the "Father of Photojournalism" Cliff Edom along with American economist, federal government official, and photographer Roy Stryker and photographer Russell Lee,{{Citation |at=sec. News, p. 2A|work= St. Louis Post-Dispatch |publication-date= January 25, 1989|title=Mizzou's Photo Workshop In Spotlight |first=Joan |last= Little|access-date= December 14, 2012 |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB04BFD87DEC816&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D}}{{Citation |work= US Federal News |publication-date=September 8, 2008 |title=Museum Exhibition Offers Unique Look Into Power Of Photography, Art |access-date= December 14, 2012 |url=http://targetednews.com/pr_disp.php?pr_id=1829162}} the workshop originally sought to instruct others in photojournalism based on the "gritty, content-rich photographs" produced by the pre-World War II (pre-1939) Farm Security Administration, a United States government effort during the Great Depression to combat American rural poverty. Following Edom's credo - "Show truth with a camera. Ideally truth is a matter of personal integrity. In no circumstances will a posed or faked photograph be tolerated."{{Citation |work= Marshall Democrat-News |publication-date= September 22, 2005|title=Photojournalists to document Marshall |author=Mark Lile |access-date= December 14, 2012 |url=http://www.marshallnews.com/story/1119245.html }} - each workshop originates in a different small town in Missouri,{{Citation |work=About — Missouri Photo Workshop |publication-date= 2012|title=History of the Missouri Photo Workshop |publisher =Missouri Photo Workshop|access-date= December 14, 2012 |url= http://mophotoworkshop.org/about/}} which is used as a backdrop for attendees from the United States and other countries to work on photograph storytelling methods such as research, observation, and timing. Missouri Photo Workshop faculty members have included the White House's first photo editor and NPPA Picture Editor of the Year Sandra Eisert and other prominent photojournalists.{{Citation |work=52nd MPW: Faculty|publication-date= 2001|title=This year's faculty |publisher =Missouri Photo Workshop|access-date= December 14, 2012 |url= http://mophotoworkshop.org/about/}}{{Citation |at=sec. News, p. 8 |work= Chicago Tribune |publication-date=October 18, 1995 |title=No Parade: Small Town In Focus: Workshop A Challenge For Residents, Photographers |author=Doug Glass }}

Faculty and students

This list of Missouri Photo Workshop faculty includes current, former, and deceased lecturers at the annual Missouri Photo Workshop (MPW), an annual week-long photojournalism school founded in 1949 and based in Lee Hills Hall at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia, Missouri, United States.

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| Cliff Edom

| align="center" | 38

| align="left" | Missouri Photo Workshop

| align="left" | MPW 1-38

| align="left" | Co-Director

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| Jim Curley

| align="center" | 64

| align="left" | Missouri Photo Workshop

| align="left" | MPW 53-64

| align="left" | Co-Director

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| Sam Abell

| align="center" | 40

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 40

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| Bill Allard

| align="center" | 20

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 20

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| Nancy Andrews

| align="center" | 54

| align="left" | Detroit Free Press

| align="left" | MPW 54

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| Howard Chapnick

| align="center" | 44

| align="left" | Black Star Publishing

| align="left" | MPW 18, 20-22, 24-28, 30, 33-35, 40, 44

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| Rich Clarkson

| align="center" | 46

| align="left" | National Geographic, Denver Post, Topeka Capital Journal

| align="left" | MPW 14, 22-35, 37-46

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| Jodi Cobb

| align="center" | 38

| align="left" | National Geographic

| align="left" | MPW 33, 38

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| Carolyn Cole

| align="center" | 61

| align="left" | Los Angeles Times

| align="left" | MPW 61

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| Harold Corsini

| align="center" | 1

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 1

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| Bruce Dale

| align="center" | 26

| align="left" | National Geographic

| align="left" | MPW 26

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| Barbara Davidson

| align="center" | 63

| align="left" | Los Angeles Times

| align="left" | MPW 63

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| Penny De Los Santos

| align="center" | 61

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 61

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| Sandra Eisert

| align="center" | 52

| align="left" | San Jose Mercury News, The White House, Associated Press, The Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune

| align="left" | MPW 27-33, 35-37, 41-46, 51, 52

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| J. Eyerman

| align="center" | 14

| align="left" | Life Magazine

| align="left" | MPW 14

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| Robert E. Gilka

| align="center" | 46

| align="left" | National Geographic, Milwaukee Journal

| align="left" | MPW 7-9, 11, 14, 16, 17, 20, 22, 24-32, 34-36, 40, 42, 46

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| MaryAnne Golon

| align="center" | 62

| align="left" | TIME Magazine, AARP

| align="left" | MPW 51, 52, 54-60, 62

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| Larry Harper

| align="center" | 26

| align="left" | Missouri Ruralist

| align="left" | MPW 26

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| Abigail Heyman

| align="center" | 39

| align="left" | International Center of Photography

| align="left" | MPW 39

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| John Isaac

| align="center" | 61

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 61

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| Lynn Johnson

| align="center" | 51

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 51

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| Tom Keane

| align="center" | 22

| align="left" | Wilmington News Journal

| align="left" | MPW 22

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| Kim Komenich

| align="center" | 64

| align="left" | San Jose State University

| align="left" | MPW 46-56, 58, 60-64

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| Brian Lanker

| align="center" | 30

| align="left" | Topeka Capital Journal, The Register Guard

| align="left" | MPW 23-26, 30

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| Russell Lee

| align="center" | 29

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 2-8, 10, 11, 13-16, 28, 29

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| Bob Lynn

| align="center" | 39

| align="left" | Virginia Pilot & Ledger Star

| align="left" | MPW 39

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| Robert Madden

| align="center" | 29

| align="left" | National Geographic

| align="left" | MPW 24, 29

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| Ron Mann

| align="center" | 38

| align="left" | Orange County Register

| align="left" | MPW 38

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| Michele McDonald

| align="center" | 51

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 46, 48-51

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| Wayne Miller

| align="center" | 27

| align="left" | Magnum Photos

| align="left" | MPW 27

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| Margaret O'Connor

| align="center" | 55

| align="left" | New York Times

| align="left" | MPW 55

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| Yoichi R. Okamoto

| align="center" | 13

| align="left" | U.S. Press Service, United States Information Agency

| align="left" | MPW 9-13

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| Randy Olson

| align="center" | 64

| align="left" | National Geographic

| align="left" | MPW 42, 48-50, 53-57, 59, 60-64

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| Eli Reed

| align="center" | 43

| align="left" | Magnum Photos

| align="left" | MPW 42, 43

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| Rita Reed

| align="center" | 60

| align="left" | University of Missouri, Minneapolis Star Tribune

| align="left" | MPW 44-49, 53, 60

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| Arthur Rothstein

| align="center" | 8

| align="left" | Look Magazine

| align="left" | MPW 6-8

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| Kurt Szafranski

| align="center" | 3

| align="left" | Black Star Publishing

| align="left" | MPW 3

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| Rick Shaw

| align="center" | 64

| align="left" | Pictures of the Year International

| align="left" | MPW 61, 64

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| Arthur Siegel

| align="center" | 4

| align="left" | Chicago Institute of Design

| align="left" | MPW 3, 4

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| Henry Smith

| align="center" | 4

| align="left" | Indiana University

| align="left" | MPW 4

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| Zoe Smith

| align="center" | 43

| align="left" | University of Missouri

| align="left" | MPW 43

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| Maggie Steber

| align="center" | 61

| align="left" | Freelance

| align="left" | MPW 43, 47, 56, 58, 61

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| William H. Strode, III

| align="center" | 35

| align="left" | Louisville Courier-Journal

| align="left" | MPW 19-21, 23-32, 35

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| Roy E. Stryker

| align="center" | 9

| align="left" | Standard Oil Company of New Jersey

| align="left" | MPW 1, 9

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| Arthur Witman

| align="center" | 19

| align="left" | St. Louis Post-Dispatch

| align="left" | MPW 17-19

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| George Yates

| align="center" | 2

| align="left" | Des Moines Register

| align="left" | MPW 2

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Selected publication

{{Citation |title=Small town America: the Missouri photo workshops, 1949-1991 |author=Cliff Edom |publisher= Fulcrum Publishing |publication-date=1993 |oclc=231997773 | pages= 236 }}{{Citation |at=sec. Local, p. 18 |work= Jefferson City News-Tribune |publication-date=October 17, 2010 |title=New Books At Mrrl }}