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Photojournalist Larry C. Price, 49, began his career in the
early 1970s as a copyboy at the Corpus Christi (Tex.) Caller-Times
and went on to graduate with a journalism degree from the
University of Texas in 1977. He became interested in photography
while in high school and began studying it seriously as an
undergraduate. After graduation, Price joined the staff of
the El Paso (Tex.) Times as a photographer. He later worked
for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram where he won the 1981 Pulitzer
Prize for spot news photography for his coverage of the 1980
coup in the west African nation of Liberia. After joining
the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1983, Price won the 1985 Pulitzer
Prize for feature photography for a portfolio documenting
the civil wars in Angola and El Salvador.
Price currently is assistant managing editor/photography
for The Denver Post. His work also has been honored by the
Overseas Press Club, World Press Photo Awards, the Pan American
Press Association, the National Press Photographers Association
and the Society of Newspaper Design.
Prices’s photographs have appeared in Time, Newsweek,
U.S. News & World Report, Geo, National Geographic, Audubon
and other national and international magazines and newspapers.
He is a veteran of A Day in the Life of Africa as
well as eleven other Day in the Life… projects.
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