Ovie Carter (born March 11, 1946) was an American photographer for the

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from 1969 to 2004. He won the

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for his coverage of famine in

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and

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together with a reporter William Mullen.

Early life and education

Ovie Carter was born and raised in Indianola,

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. After graduating from Forest Park College in 1966 he had been serving for a year in the

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. Then he continued his studies at the School of Photography at Illinois Institute of Art in

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Career

Ovie Carter began his career in 1969 after being hired by the

as a laboratory assistant. He was promoted to the photographer four months later. His photo reports covered mostly living in poor urban areas. He was the first photojournalist of Chicago Tribune who started to represent his work as photo-narration. For example, one of his first publications was a photo essay on drug addiction in 1970. In 1974, Ovie Carter and William Mullen set off on a 10,000 miles journey across

and

to report about local famine. They created the five-part series "The Face of Hunger" and were awarded the

in 1975. Also, Carter won the top prize in the

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Contest. During his career Carter was also named Photographer of the Year by the Illinois Press Photographers Association;

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Award laureate; Chicago Tribune's Edward Scott Beck Award laureate and Excellence Award for photography laureate by the

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. In 1992, Ovie Carter and sociologist

Mitchell Duneier Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer. He is currently Maurice P. During Professor and department chair of Sociology at Princeton University and has also served as a regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at ...

published the book Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity. Eight years later, they published the Sidewalk. In 2004 the photographer was retired.

Selected publications

* 1999. (with

and Hakim Hasan) ''Sidewalk'', Farrar Straus and Giroux, * 1992. (with Mitchell Duneier) ''Slim’s Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity'', University of Chicago Press,

Books

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References

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