March 2017 | PDNPulse via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2017/03/library-congress-acquires-bob-adelmans-civil-rights-archive.html The archive, which was provided to the library as a gift from an anonymous donor, includes 575,000 images. About 50,000 of those images are prints, and the rest are negatives and slides, the library said in its March 20 announcement of the gift.
Bob Adelman: From Civil Rights to Making a Difference In 2014 he was named, in essence, a photographer in residence at the Library of Congress, a position created to draw attention to the importance of the medium in American life. He spoke then with James Estrin about his life and career. The conversation has been…
Civil Rights Photographer Bob Adelman: Interview by Photographer Matt Herron | PDNPulse Civil Rights photographer Bob Adelman, who died over the weekend at the age of 85, was profiled recently in an essay titled “Shooting Civil Rights” by photographer Matt Herron. A friend and colleague of Adelman’s, and a fellow Civil Rights activist, Herro via…
Noted civil rights-era photographer Bob Adelman found dead at Miami Beach home Adelman shot iconic photo of Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech