Bernie Boston

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Bernard Norman "Bernie" Boston (born May 18, 1933 in Washington, DC , † January 22, 2008 in Basye , Virginia ) was an American photographer and photojournalist , best known for his anti-war photo Flower Power , the earned him a 1967 Pulitzer Prize for Photography nomination .

Life

Bernard Norman Boston was born in Washington, DC in 1933. When he was 7 years old, his parents gave him his first camera. In 1955 he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and later attended the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine. He then served in the US Army for two years and was stationed as a radiologist in a medical unit during his service in Germany. After the end of his service, he returned to the States and worked there as a photographer, first as a freelancer and then for various newspapers, including in Ohio for the Dayton Daily News. From 1967 he worked for The Washington Star , where he was later promoted to director of photography.

On October 21, 1967, during protests against the Vietnam War in front of the Pentagon, he took his famous picture Flower Power , in which demonstrators stuck flowers in the gun barrels of the deployed National Guardsman.

In 1987 he was again nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, this time for a picture of Coretta Scott King unveiling a bust of her husband Martin Luther King . He has also received numerous other awards, including from the National Press Photographers Association.

Boston stayed with the Washington Star until the newspaper's bankruptcy in 1981 and then moved to the Washington office of the Los Angeles Times . In 1993 he retired and moved to the Shenandoah Valley. In 2000, he and his wife bought Bryce Mountain Courier newspaper.

On January 22, 2008, he died of complications from amyloidosis at his home in Basye, Virginia . He left behind his wife Peggy Peasley Boston, with whom he was married for 37 years for the second time.

literature

  • Therese Mulligan: Bernie Boston: American Photojournalist. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-933360-19-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Obituary: Bernie Boston, 74; Took Iconic 1967 Photograph at washingtonpost.com, accessed November 24, 2013
  2. ↑ Flowers, Guns and an Iconic Snapshot at washingtonpost.com, accessed November 24, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Boston, Bernie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boston, Bernard Norman (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2008
Place of death Basye , Virginia , United States