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2005: Rich Clarkson

01 June 2012
Published in Person of the Year

After 7 years, we catch up with our past Photography Person of the Year award-winner, Rich Clarkson, to see how his career has progressed.

Sports photographer Rich Clarkson has continued to expand his business. "The shifts ... have been towards multi-delivery of our work," Clarkson says. "Video production is part of this and we have added to our staff of 10 people versed in that field, in addition to still photography and the resulting multimedia productions." Two of Clarkson's productions in the last year — one...

Eppridge, Bey, Clarkson Honored for Lifetime Achievement

14 March 2012
Published in Special Honors

Among the winners at the 2011 Lucie Awards this past October were notable photographers Bill Eppridge, Dawoud Bey and Rich Clarkson.

Eppridge, who covered the Beatles' 1964 arrival in America, Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign and assassination, and the...

Rich Clarkson: Fifty Years at the Top of His Game

02 July 2005
Published in Person of the Year

Known mostly for his pioneering sports shooting, our Photography Person of the Year also has spent half a century as a photojournalist, an editor and a mentor for the next generation of aspiring photographers.

By his own admission, he's no athlete, but Rich Clarkson holds a sports record unlikely to be broken soon: he has just photographed his 50th NCAA college basketball championship. He shot his first back in 1952, and hasn't missed one since 1960. Along the way, Clarkson's pictures have helped redefine the way we look at sports.

The Final Four is just one facet of a remarkable career with roots reaching back to the 1940s and still running full-throttle today. At 72, Clarkson is a photography dynamo, busy with a demanding shooting and...