Ruth Gruber, correspondent and humanitarian, is honored for decades of photojournalism. Many decades. She is 99.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/ruth-gruber-from-exodus-to-ethiopia/
She began carrying a medium-format Rolleicord as a correspondent for The New York Herald Tribune in the 1930s. “I just put one finger on the shutter and I found I was really enjoying it,” she said. “Now I could make my own pictures that also told the story.”