Anacleto Rapping

Anacleto Rapping
Born Anacleto M. Rapping
1955
San Jose, California
 United States
Residence Thousand Oaks, California
Occupation photographer, pedagogue
Years active 1978–present
Spouse(s) Terrie L. Rapping (m. 1981)
Children Matthew, Ariel
Website arapping.com

Anacleto Rapping (born 1955) is an American photographer and teacher.

Education

Anacleto Rapping studied journalism at San Jose State University (class of 1978).

Career

As a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times for over two decades, Rapping has covered presidential campaigns, Olympic Games, World Cup Soccer tournaments and the Academy Awards. He has also served as an instructor at Brooks Institute of Photography, where he stressed the importance of foreign travel.[1] Rapping also helped launch three new feature sections at the Los Angeles Times — Sunday Calendar, Home and Outdoors.

Rapping previously worked for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut and the Thousand Oaks News Chronicle in California. He has taken assignments in South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United States. He has photographed four summer Olympic Games, one winter Olympics and three World Cup Soccer tournaments.[2]

Rapping is also known for his portrait photography. Over the decades, subjects have included Don Cheadle, Keith Richards, David Woodard, Bjork, Dennis Hopper, Bill Clinton, Pat Boone, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ben Affleck.[3]

Awards

Rapping has the distinct honor of sharing three Pulitzer Prizes for team coverage in news. Individually he has received a Pulitzer nomination for his photography at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[4] In 1986 he was awarded 2nd prize in the World Press Photo contest,[5] and in 1996 he received three POYI awards.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Rapping, A., A Brooks Documentary Project: South Africa Intro, Vimeo, 2013.
  2. ↑ World Journalism Institute, Anacleto Rapping bio.
  3. ↑ Getty Images, Anacleto Rapping.
  4. ↑ Goodman, M., "In Conversation with Anacleto Rapping", Strant Magazine, Jul 2015.
  5. ↑ World Press Photo, Anacleto Rapping, 1987.
  6. ↑ Pictures of the Year International, "Winners of the 54th Annual Pictures of the Year", 1996.
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