TIH Dirck Halstead, Photojournalist Who Captured History, Dies at 85

History Date
Mar 26, 2022
Shooting for Time magazine and United Press International, Dirck Halstead documented presidents, the Vietnam War and more.

Time designated Halstead as their Senior White House Photographer in 1972. He later accepted a contract with them that same year which lasted for the next 29 years. Halstead was one of the six photographers who accompanied Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China in 1972. His photographs have appeared on 49 Time covers, more than any other photographer. During this period he also worked as a "Special Photographer" on films to produce photographs used in advertising materials for the major commercial studios. The films he worked on included Goodfellas, Memphis Belle, Shaft, Black Rain, Dragon, Dune, Conan the Barbarian series, Greystoke, and Cliffhanger.

Halstead won the National Press Photographers Association Picture of the Year award twice, the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the fall of Saigon, and two Eisies. In 2002 he received the lifetime achievement award from the White House News Photographers Association, and in 2004 he won the Joseph A. Sprague Award for lifetime achievement and service to photojournalism. The Missouri Honor Medal from the University of Missouri School of Journalism was given to Halstead in 2007 for superior achievement in journalism.

The archive of Halstead's works is located at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a senior fellow in photojournalism. His book Moments in Time: Photos and Stories from One of America's Top Photojournalists, was published in 2006.




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