Wally McNamee | |
Birth Date: | 29 November 1932 |
Birth Place: | Harrisonburg, Virginia |
Death Place: | Fairfax County, Virginia |
Occupation: | Photojournalist |
Wally McNamee (1932–2017) was an American photojournalist. Over his career, which included work for The Washington Post and Newsweek, he covered 10 United States Presidents, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the Olympics.[1] He was named the White House News Photographers' Association's Photographer of the Year four times (1957, 1968, 1974, and 1983) and received National Press Photographers Association's highest honor, the Sprague Memorial Award, in 2005.[2] His son, Win, is also a photojournalist.[3] [4]