Name Brian Lanker Role Photographer | Books I Dream a World Movies They Drew Fire | |
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Spouse Lynda Coburn Lanker (m. ?–2011) Children Dustin Lanker, Julie Coburn, Jacki Coburn Awards Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography, World Press Photo Award for People in the News | ||
From the Heart: The Photographs of Brian Lanker
Throwback Thursday with the History Guy: Brian Lanker Wins the Pulitzer Prize
Brian Lanker (August 31, 1947 – March 13, 2011) was an American photographer. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a black-and-white photo essay on childbirth for The Topeka Capital-Journal, including the photograph "Moment of Life". Lanker died at his home in Eugene, Oregon on March 13, 2011 after a brief bout of pancreatic cancer. He was 63.
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- From the Heart The Photographs of Brian Lanker
- Throwback Thursday with the History Guy Brian Lanker Wins the Pulitzer Prize
- Works
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His work appeared in Life and Sports Illustrated, as well as book projects, including I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, and Track Town, USA. He was the graphics director for The Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene from 1974 to 1982. He received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1991.
Lanker is the father of musician Dustin Lanker.
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