Name James Dickman | Role Photographer | |
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Books Perfect Digital Photography, Perfect Digital Photography Second Edition Awards Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography |
James (Jay) B Dickman (born 1949), is an American photographer, he won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography while a staff member for the Dallas Times Herald.

In the same year he also won the World Press Golden Eye for a series of photos from the war in El Salvador. Dickman has also been awarded the Distinguished Journalist award from Sigma Delta Chi, and multiple awards in other competitions.
A National Geographic photographer, with more than 25 assignments for the NG Society, he is the co-author of Perfect Digital Photography, an extensive guide to the entire process of photography in the digital age.
Dickman owns and conducts a series of photographic workshops, Firstlight Workshops, which has been reviewed in multiple publications.