R.I.P. - Thanks for the great photo.
Posted on 12/04/2005 9:45:59 AM PST by Tall_Texan
ATLANTA (AP) - Photojournalist Michael Evans, who captured an iconic image of a grinning Ronald Reagan wearing a worn cowboy hat, has died. He was 61.
Evans died Thursday at his Atlanta home after having cancer for four years, the National Press Photographers Association said.
In 1975, while covering Reagan's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he took the famous picture of the future president, which ran on the covers of Time, Newsweek and People magazines after the president's death last year.
After Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980, Evans became the new president's personal photographer. For the next four years, he made a pictorial record of the Reagan administration.
He was standing behind the president when he was shot in 1981.
"I just lowered my camera as the shots rang out," Evans wrote in July 2004 for the Digital Journalist. "Instinctively, I fired a frame as I raised my camera, then took one more before I dropped to the ground myself."
He was still in his teens when he began his career in 1959 at the Port Hope Evening Guide in Ontario, earning $2 a photo to cover high school football games. He later worked for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, The New York Times and Time magazine.
In 1982, he set up a nonprofit corporation to photograph 595 of Washington's most powerful people. He later developed computer programs to find photos in large collections and briefly worked in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's photo department.
R.I.P. - Thanks for the great photo.
He had a great subject to work with, and he made the most of it. RIP.
Thanks for the word, OLV.
Thanks. I like this one too.
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