Richard Cross (photojournalist) explained

Richard Cross (1950–1983) was a Pulitzer prize-nominated American photojournalist who worked in Colombia, Mexico, Tanzania, and the Central American countries of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala.[1]

Life and career

Born April 1, 1950, in Kansas City, Missouri, Richard Cross graduated from Northwestern University in 1972 with a degree in journalism. After college he worked for one year as a photographer at the Daily Globe in Worthington, Minnesota, and then spent four years as a Peace Corps worker in Colombia as an audio-visual consultant and photographer.[2] While in Colombia he began to collaborate with anthropologist [//ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_S._de_Friedemann Nina de Friedemann] on a project researching Afro-Colombians in Palenque de San Basilio, one of the first communities of former slaves in the Americas. Friedemann and Cross co-wrote a book based on their research entitled Ma Ngombe: guerreros y ganaderos en Palenque, published in 1979, which included over 250 of Cross's photographs.[3] In 1979 Cross left Colombia to begin documenting the civil wars in the Central American countries of Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala. He also documented refugees from Central America who had fled into Mexico. He sold his photographs to a variety of magazines, newspapers, and news outlets including Newsweek and the Associated Press. Cross co-authored a book in 1982 with Nicaraguan priest and poet Ernesto Cardenal entitled Nicaragua: la guerra de liberación, which included dozens of his photographs. He was nominated by the Associated Press for a Pulitzer Prize for his photojournalism work in Nicaragua.[4]

Cross enrolled in a graduate program in visual anthropology at Temple University, and in 1980 he and fellow graduate student Peter Biella took thousands of photographs of the Ilparayuko Maasai people in Tanzania for an ethnographic film, entitled Maasai Solutions. The next year Cross and Biella co-authored a book entitled Maasai Solutions: A Film About East African Dispute and Settlement.

Death and legacy

Cross died on June 21, 1983, when he and journalist Dial Torgerson were in a car struck by a land mine in Honduras.[5] [6] [7] [8] His photographic archive is preserved by the Tom and Ethel Bradley Center in the University Library, Special Collections and Archives at California State University, Northridge.[9] [10]

Publications

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Richard Cross (1950-1983) . . Tom & Ethel Bradley Center Photographs . July 24, 2020 .
  2. Web site: The Teatro de Cristóbal Colón, Bogotá, Colombia . . March 2, 2021 . Peek in the Stacks . March 5, 2021.
  3. Web site: Richard Cross Photographic Collection . . July 14, 2020 . Peek in the Stacks . July 24, 2020 .
  4. News: Haynes . Gary . September 18, 1983 . Exhibition Honors Slain Photo-Journalist . Philadelphia Inquirer . 11.
  5. News: Crossette . Barbara . June 22, 1983 . Two American Journalists Killed at Border, Honduran Army Says . New York Times . July 24, 2020 .
  6. News: Crossette . Barbara . June 23, 1983 . 2 Slain U.S. Journalists Flown to Honduran Capital . New York Times . July 24, 2020 .
  7. News: . July 16, 1983 . Journalists Slain in Honduras Killed by Land Mine, U.S. Says . New York Times .
  8. News: McKinney . Jack . November 4, 1987 . Long Wait for the Truth: Contra Mine Took Temple Grad Student's Life . Philadelphia Daily News . 71.
  9. Web site: Oviatt Spotlight: The Richard Cross Collection . Flores . Gina . Spring 2020 . Oviatt Library eNews . July 24, 2020 .
  10. Web site: Commemorating the 36th Anniversary of the Death of American Photographer Richard Cross . Benavides . Jose Luis . June 21, 2019 . Medium.com . July 24, 2020 .
  11. News: . September 12, 1983 . Temple University Exhibition to Honor Slain Photojournalist . Philadelphia Inquirer . B2.
  12. News: Moran . Barbara . March 26, 1986 . Two Faces of War . San Diego Union . E2.
  13. Web site: Richard Cross Exhibition on Central America to Open at the Museum of Social Justice . . August 9, 2019 . CSUN Today . California State University, Northridge . August 26, 2020 .
  14. Web site: Richard Cross: memoria gráfica . . August 19, 2019 . Facebook . August 26, 2020 .

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