Steve Starr is a Pulitzer Prize winning American

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. He has since retired from photography, and since 2014, has served as a Third Order Franciscan Brother at Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs.

Life

Starr attended

San José State University San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) sy ...

, for a BA in Journalism, graduating in 1967. He worked for the

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in four bureaus, Los Angeles, New York City, Albany, NY, and Miami, FL. "Campus Guns," his photograph of armed African American protesters leaving

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, won the

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in 1970. He married Marilynne Starr, who he met at

. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has been writing a autobiography since 2020 about his experiences as a photojournalist and as a Franciscan Brother.

Awards

* May 4, 1970 -

"Spot News Photography"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.

Works

*Guns on Campus, 1969 *Mourners at the Columbine Memorial, 1999

References

External links

* American photographers Living people Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners Year of birth missing (living people) San Jose State University alumni {{US-photographer-stub