Walt Zeboski (1929 – 12 November 2012), was an American photographer and

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

for the Associated Press for more than thirty years. Zeboski extensively photographed

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during his 1980 presidential campaign, snapping some of the most iconic pictures of Reagan's campaign. Zeboski, who often focused on California politics, covered the political terms of four consecutive Governors of California from the 1960s to the 1980s - Pat Brown,

, Jerry Brown and George Deukmejian. Zeboski joined the Associated Press in 1966. In addition to Reagan and the Californian governors, some of his more famous subjects included

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, the

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, and Senator

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. He also photographed

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's 1983 to Yosemite National Park. Walt Zeboski died on November 12, 2012, at the age of 83. He was a resident of Sacramento, California.

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1929 births 2012 deaths American photojournalists Associated Press reporters Artists from Sacramento, California 20th-century American journalists {{US-journalist-1920s-stub