It was a tragedy that touched upon several great national themes — the dislocation wrought by fading industry, the turmoil of immigration, the endurance of sports — and David C. Turnley, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, was there to grapple with them all. He turned the story of the murder and how it shook the town into “Shenandoah,” a wrenching documentary that he shot, directed and produced.
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David Turnley’s Documentary, ‘Shenandoah’
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Competition and Camaraderie: A Look Inside the Michigan Football Team – The New York Times
Competition and Camaraderie: A Look Inside the Michigan Football Team
During his long career, David Turnley has dodged gunfire, shaken hands with world leaders, witnessed the toppling of regimes and won a Pulitzer Prize. But what has given him perspective, he said, are memories from an indelible part of his college years: a 1973 stint as a walk-on — along with his twin, Peter — on the University of Michigan’s storied football team.
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Pulitzer Winning Photographer David Turnley’s Advice to a Class of Photojournalism Students
Pulitzer Winning Photographer David Turnley’s Advice to a Class of Photojournalism Students
I had a wonderful opportunity today in that I got to enjoy the company of Pulitzer Prize-winner photojournalist David Turnley in the setting of my very
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David Turnley had so much to say on the matter of street shooting and his experiences of so many decades of work, and I was so overloaded with joy and the relevant information he brought to the table based on real experience from a career as a humanitarian and war photographer, that it was hard to capture everything he was saying, but some important things he shared with us did manage to stick with me.
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Tiananmen Square Still Haunts Photographer Brothers After 25 Years
Tiananmen Square Still Haunts Photographer Brothers After 25 Years
David Turnley was in Paris when he got the call. His brother Peter was in Beijing to cover the visit of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to China but was on the line with different, more exciting news. A small group of students had taken to the streets in protest in Tiananmen Square—and their numbers were swelling.
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Witness to History, Searching for Dignity
Link: Witness to History, Searching for Dignity
David Turnley on Rwanda: For 20 years it’s been very hard for me to make sense of this, and I haven’t been ready to go back to look at the photos. I have lived with the frustration from what I saw in Rwanda about the capacity of human behavior. I think it’s given me a tremendous amount of motivation to find other kinds of ways, other dimensions of that manifestation to make that real for people.
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A Tribute to Nelson Mandela by Pulitzer Winner David Turnley
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Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley spent 28 years photographing South Africa’s struggles of apartheid. Having documented the life of Nelson Mandela and his people, Turnley reflects for LightBox on his memories of Mandela on the day of his release from prison.