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...most publications the writers usually win the "friendly" competition for space. Though better known for its reportage and analysis than its photography, TIME in recent years has, we feel, significantly improved the play given to artwork. Last week our graphics staff received another boost: Picture Editor John Durniak won the National Press Photographers Association's Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award. The citation said that Durniak's "early and continued influence on American photojournalism has helped create much of the interest that it has today...
After earning a master's degree in journalism at the University of Iowa, Durniak began his career as a photographer's assistant for LIFE. Later he mixed print and pictures during 16 years with Popular Photography and became the magazine's editor in chief. He joined TIME two years ago, and has journeyed from prison cells in Danbury, Conn., to auto plants in Detroit in pursuit of exciting photographs. "Human reach," he says, "is photography's reach. A camera is the unique, most dynamic extension of man. It can take him into veiled worlds...
Tracking their every move from over 6,000 miles away was Picture Editor John Durniak. Since the day the Nixon trip was announced, Durniak had been laying plans to get photographs out of China and into this week's issue...
After equipping Schecter and Sidey with cameras, he instigated a special airlift to get pictures of the trip off the mainland, and by Thursday night the first 150 rolls of film had been flown into Chicago. There Durniak, Color Director Arnold Drapkin, Artist Anthony Libardi and a crew of photolab technicians worked nonstop for the next 38 hours. Meanwhile TIME writers and editors in New York were poring over the Sidey-Schecter files for this week's cover story and articles in THE NATION and THE PRESS. The result: a hard-won look into a long-hidden China...
...powerful ingredient of our report on Attica, we feel, are the pictures, both color and black-and-white. They were obtained by Picture Editor John Durniak and his staff. Before selecting the photographs that appear in this week's issue, they pored over thousands of negatives- including color shots of the carnage taken inside the walls of Attica...