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PICTURE EDITOR: Arnold H. Drapkin...
This year TIME is celebrating the achievements and careers of two of its most durable and valued employees, Makeup Chief Charles P. Jackson and Picture Editor Arnold Drapkin. If their years of service are added together, Jackson and Drapkin have been around 19 years longer than the magazine itself, which turned 62 last March. Their rise from office boys to positions of honor and responsibility adds a gratifying chapter to Horatio Alger lore...
...Drapkin, 53, joined TIME as a copy boy in 1950. Six months later he became the first layout artist in the newly formed color department. Says he of those early days: "Charlie Jackson was a mentor, to me and many others, before the term or the role was fashionable. When I was brand-new, he saw me looking confused, took pity, sat down and taught me how to crop pictures with a proportional slide rule...
After Army service in the 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...
...fifth consecutive year, the Olivier Rebbot Award,* presented by Newsweek, for the best photographic reporting from abroad. David Burnett won for TIME stories on the Ethiopian famine and the 40th anniversary of D-day, along with coverage of Jamaica for National Geographic. TIME Picture Editor Arnold H. Drapkin summed up the double win: "Although TIME is not generally thought of as a photo magazine, these awards, year after year, underscore TIME's pre-eminence in the field of photojournalism...