Ozzie Sweet (Oscar Cowan Corbo; September 10, 1918 in

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– February 20, 2013 in

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) was a sports photographer whose best work in photography was in creating an image, not capturing one. According to the

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, "Sweet's signature images from the 1940s through the 1950s and into the 1960s, many in the fierce hues of increasingly popular color film that emulated the emergent

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palette of American movies, helped define — visually, anyway — an era."

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"Ozzie Sweet, Who Helped Define New Era of Photography, Dies at 94," by BRUCE WEBER, The New York Times, February 23, 2013
1918 births 2013 deaths American photographers Sports photographers Artists from Stamford, Connecticut {{US-photographer-stub