Brian Smith (photographer)
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Brian Smith is an American photographer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games in the Orange County Register. In 1988, he was again a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his photographs of Haiti in Turmoil for the Miami Herald.
His photograph of Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games won top awards from World Press Photo, the Pictures of the Year and was chosen as one of Photo District News' "Greatest Sports Photos 1980-2000."[1] He has been featured on the cover of the Photo District News' Portraiture Issue and the Communication Arts Photography Annual, Smith was twice named as one of American Photo magazine's "New Faces in Photography."
He got his start in photography while a high school swimmer clearly not destined for the Olympics in the pool, began photographing swimming and other sports as a stringer for the Ames Daily Tribune in his hometown of Ames, Iowa. He grew up next door to the house where Iowa State University professor John Vincent Atanasoff had lived from 1937-1942 while building the world's first electronic digital computer.
His first magazine photograph of New York Yankees' manager Billy Martin crying at Thurman Munson’s funeral was published in LIFE Magazine while Smith was a 20-year-old journalism student at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
A photo of Pope John Paul II taken by Smith was featured on the cover of Newsweek in 2005.[2]
He lives in Miami Beach, Florida, United States with his wife, fashion stylist Fazia Ali.
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- ^ http://www.pdngallery.com/20years/sports/20_brian_smith.html
- ^ http://atmizzou.missouri.edu/may05/briansmith.htm
