Joyce Dopkeen, Barrier-Breaking News Photographer, Dies at 80 – The New York Times

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Joyce Dopkeen, Barrier-Breaking News Photographer, Dies at 80

In 1973, she was the first woman hired by The New York Times to be a full-time staff photographer.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/business/media/joyce-dopkeen-dead.html

Ms. Dopkeen roamed widely with her camera for The Times, whether capturing Muhammad Ali squaring off against Joe Frazier, female prison inmates training puppies to be service dogs, exuberant children enjoying summers in urban parks, or the aerialist Philippe Petit pausing during an eight-and-a-half minute tiptoe across the Great Falls gorge in Paterson, N.J., before 30,000 gaping spectators.

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