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Dick L. Swanson (born 1934) is an American photographer and a war photographer with numerous images published〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Sample of Images by Dick Swanson in the LIFE image collection )〕 in the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=October 8, 2013 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.loeildelaphotographie.com/photographers/dick-swanson )〕 ==Biography== Dick Swanson was born in 1934 and was raised in Illinois. In his youth, he worked at newspapers owned by his uncle. He later became a staff photographer at the ''News-Gazette'' in Champaign, Illinois while at the University of Illinois. Life magazine first published one of his photos, a Miscellany called ''A Bubble that has Ears'', in 1957. Shortly after that, Swanson temporarily gave up photography to become a commercial pilot. Following college, he worked for ''The Des Moines Register'' and the ''Davenport Democrat''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Guide to the Dick L. Swanson Photographic Archive, 1959-1994 )〕 and he later signed a contract with New York's Black Star.〔 While working for the ''Des Moines Register'', he shot "Man Alone", a photograph of a firefighter on a ladder engulfed in flames, which was recognized by the 1963 Pulitzer jury as "good on-the-spot work". In 1966, Swanson went on assignment for ''Life'' to Vietnam, where he met his future wife Germaine; they married in 1971. For his work in Vietnam he has been recognized as amongst the best military photographers by the project "A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces." Eventually Swanson became a White House photographer for ''Life'' until the magazine ended publication in 1972. Swanson stayed at the White House bureau and worked for such magazines as ''Fortune'', ''People'', and ''Time''. In April 1975, Swanson returned to Vietnam to bring his wife's family to the United States during the fall of Saigon.〔 〕 He took time off from photography in the late 1970s to help his wife open a Washington DC restaurant which was popular in 1979. Around 1980, Swanson began working for ''National Geographic'', ''Newsweek'' and ''The Washington Post'' as a freelance photographer. Currently he uses Final Cut Pro for all his work and is a producer of films for the Video Action Fund.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dick Swanson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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