José Galvez was 10 years old when he first stepped into a newsroom in his hometown of Tucson, Ariz.
Years later, as a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, Galvez helped Chicanos step figuratively into the newsroom — and literally into the public eye — through his depictions of his world, his culture. His work, along with that of fellow staff members, won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for photography.
Today, Galvez works as a free-lance photographer and continues to capture the diversity and depth of Mexican Americans.
"I want people to look at these photographs and not see stereotypes," he told a group of journalists in Phoenix on Oct. 4, 2000. "I want people to see the positive side of who we are."
More than three decades after Galvez first began documenting Mexican Americans, his first solo book provides a brief but important look at a people who were not commonly represented in the mainstream media. [2000.10] TOP
Related links
- Vatos by José Galvez, Luis Alberto Urrea (poet), Benjamin Alire Sáenz (introduction)
- José Galvez, the Web site
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Exhibit showcases Pulitzer
photos from 1945 to now
The largest collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning images in a single show are on display at an exhibit in New York. Through 23 September 2000, the Newseum brings together more than 100 of the world's most memorable photographs, beginning with the 1945 scene at Iwo Jima that became an icon.
Hear the photographers talk about the stories behind the images at the web-based exhibit. Requires Shockwave. TOP
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Bill Clinton, Samuel R. Berger, Madeleine K. Albright, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Al Gore, Tipper Gore, The White House Map Room, April 8, 1997 [Photo by Robert McNeely; Courtesy of The White House; Copyright © Callaway Editions, Inc.]
