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Bill Eppridge Visits the Greenlee School

Famed photojournalist Bill Eppridge will be spending three days on campus to present lectures and work with students in the Greenlee School of Journalism.

On Sunday, October 19, Eppridge will present a show of his work that documented the 1968 campaign of Robert F. Kennedy. This body of work is an intimate portrayal of Kennedyʼs candidacy and was recently published in the acclaimed book: A Time It Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties.

During a storied career that has spanned five decades, Eppridge has covered a remarkable assortment of stories for renowned national publications such as National Geographic, LIFE magazine and Sports Illustrated.

His collective assignments read like a list of the most important historical and cultural events from the latter half of the 20th Century. Eppridge recorded the Beatles' first momentous visit to the United States. He photographed a young Barbra Streisand, living in a tiny railroad apartment in Manhattan, on the verge of super stardom. He was the only photographer admitted into Marilyn Lovell's home as her husband, Jim, made his nail-biting re-entry into the atmosphere in the crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft. He captured Clint Eastwood on the set of Dirty Harry. He was at Woodstock. And he was in Vietnam.

His landmark photographic essay on Needle Park heroin addiction won the National Headliner Award and inspired the motion picture Panic in Needle Park, starring Al Pacino. That photo essay is included in Things As They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955, the 2005 ICP award-winning book by World Press Photo.

On Monday and Tuesday Eppridge and his wife, Adrienne Aurichio, a picture editor with over 20 years experience in the magazine world, will meet with classes in Hamilton Hall and review student work.

Pictures courtesy of Bill Eppridge.

2008-10-20