Dallas Kinney
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Dallas Kinney, born in 1937 in Buckeye, Iowa
is a world renowned photo journalist who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize
in photography for his photographs of Florida migrant workers. As a newspaper journalist, Dallas has worked for the Washington Evening Journal in Washington, Iowa, The Dubuque Telegraph Herald, in Dubuque, Iowa, The Palm Beach Post in Palm Beach, Florida, The Miami Herald
in Miami, Florida and the Philadelphia Inquirer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dallas started his photojournalism career as a student of famous nature photographer Ansel Adams
in Carmel, California. Kinney has a passion for and continuing desire to create "Ansel Adams-like" photographs as they exist in current times.
Among his other awards as a photojournalist, Kinney was the recipient of the following awards: Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
, World Press Association/Photojournalism, National Press Photographers Association
Regional, Iowa News Photographer of the Year, Florida News Photographer of the Year.
He is most acclaimed for his poignant pictures of Florida migrant workers entitled "Migration to Misery" and the tragic "Martin Luther King Assassination".
Dallas now resides with his wife Martha near the North Georgia mountain town of Dahlonega.
Buckeye, Iowa
Buckeye is a city in Hardin County, Iowa, United States. The population was 110 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Buckeye's longitude and latitude coordinatesin decimal form are 42.419473 -93.375829...
is a world renowned photo journalist who won the 1970 Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in photography for his photographs of Florida migrant workers. As a newspaper journalist, Dallas has worked for the Washington Evening Journal in Washington, Iowa, The Dubuque Telegraph Herald, in Dubuque, Iowa, The Palm Beach Post in Palm Beach, Florida, The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States...
in Miami, Florida and the Philadelphia Inquirer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dallas started his photojournalism career as a student of famous nature photographer Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
in Carmel, California. Kinney has a passion for and continuing desire to create "Ansel Adams-like" photographs as they exist in current times.
Among his other awards as a photojournalist, Kinney was the recipient of the following awards: Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
The Robert F. Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism is journalisms award named after Robert F. Kennedy and awarded by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The annual awards are issued in several categories and were established in December 1968 by a group of reporters who...
, World Press Association/Photojournalism, National Press Photographers Association
National Press Photographers Association
NPPA is the acronym for the National Press Photographers Association, founded in 1947. The organization is based in Durham, North Carolina and its mostly made up of still photographers, television videographers, editors, and students in the journalism field...
Regional, Iowa News Photographer of the Year, Florida News Photographer of the Year.
He is most acclaimed for his poignant pictures of Florida migrant workers entitled "Migration to Misery" and the tragic "Martin Luther King Assassination".
Dallas now resides with his wife Martha near the North Georgia mountain town of Dahlonega.