Larry Price
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Larry C. Price is an United States photojournalist and has received two Pulitzer Prizes during his journalism career. In 1981 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Spot News Photography while a photojournalist at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. He was honored again in 1985 for his feature photographs from Angola and El Salvador depicting their war-torn inhabitants while a photojournalist at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Price received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1977. He was a member of The Daily Texan staff during his senior year in college.
His journalism career has spanned more than two decades. After college, he joined the El Paso Times staff. He then worked on the news staff at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and later as assistant managing editor and associate editor. During that time, Price also was a visiting professor at UT.
In 1983, he left Fort Worth for The Philadelphia Inquirer to work as a photojournalist and then left to join The Baltimore Sun photography staff. He returned to The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1987 to become its director of photography and work at its Washington bureau. Subsequently, Price became assistant managing editor / photography at The Denver Post.
Price also has received a Best Photographic Reporting award from the Overseas Press Club and has been honored at the World Press Photo Awards. His images have appeared in Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, U.S. News & World Report, Audubon and other national publications.
