Word: capa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...photojournalist, the Robert Capa Gold Medal is the ultimate accolade. Given by the Overseas Press Club (to honor the LIFE photographer killed in Indochina in 1954) "for best photographic reporting or interpretation from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," it entails a deliberate decision to go in harm's way, recording battles and disasters...
...Capa is an achievement; to win it twice is truly remarkable. Last week James Nachtwey won for the third time in four years, becoming the second person in the history of the award (after the late Larry Burrows of LIFE) to do so. Nachtwey's picture stories included a series done jointly for TIME and West Germany's GEO on the Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka, and coverage for TIME of the Philippines and the mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan. In addition, Nachtwey was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association-University of Missouri School...
...postmodern wit of Pop Singer David Byrne. And we continue to receive accolades from our peers. In 1986 TIME won the National Magazine Award for excellence in design, and the Overseas Press Club singled out TIME photographers for the Olivier Rebbot Award for photographic reporting and the Robert Capa Gold Medal for enterprising and courageous photojournalism...
...tenth time in eleven years, the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal (given in memory of a LIFE photographer killed in 1954 in Indochina), awarded "for photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise," went to a photographer on assignment for TIME. Peter Magubane, a black South African, has been covering the violence and tragedy in his country for more than 20 years...
...early 1950s, Drapkin returned to TIME to become involved in all of the magazine's graphic areas, from photo assignments to cover design. He was named picture editor in 1978. Since then his photographers have won scores of major awards, including the coveted Overseas Press Club Robert Capa Gold Medal seven times. As he looks back on his 35 years with TIME, Drapkin marvels at the strides photojournalism has made. "Our color deadline has gone from five weeks to mere hours. Technology has allowed us to meet more challenges and be better journalists than ever before." Our warmest congratulations...