Word: liss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alam, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Paul Durrant, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Barbara Nagelsmith, Mark Rykoff, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
...order for a photograph to convey a human truth, the photographer must first form a human bond with his subject. To portray the troubled youths featured in this week's story about teenage runaways, photographer Steve Liss spent three weeks in Hollywood immersed in their milieu of drugs, prostitution, disease and violence. His day started when theirs did, sometime after noon, when they filtered onto the streets from the abandoned buildings where they had spent the night. "I'd glue myself to a small group, some days shooting picture after picture and others just watching and listening," says Liss. "Gradually...
...recorded those lives with an empathy that shines through the grim pictures and has led him to keep in touch with several of the teens. "It was important to me that these photographs not exploit the subjects but rather give voice to them," says Liss, who has been a Big Brother volunteer for the past seven years. To keep the shots authentic, he carefully avoided arty angles and used available light. "I believe strongly in the power of straightforward documentary photography," he says...
...Liss, 39, has built his career on that power. Now based in Chicago, he has covered every presidential campaign for TIME since 1976. His photos have appeared on 20 of our covers, depicting subjects ranging from flood victims to Bill Clinton on election night in 1992. "The word to describe Steve is versatile," says picture editor Michele Stephenson. "You can give him almost any assignment and know he will approach it in a fresh and creative...
...Liss even found a fresh way to overcome his fear of flying -- a serious handicap for a peripatetic photographer. He took five flying lessons a decade ago and promptly bought a Cessna 182, which he now pilots to and from assignments...