Flip Schulke, 77; Acclaimed Civil Rights Photographer
By Ryan • May 19th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)By Joe Holley of the Washington Post:
“Flip Schulke, 77, a photographer whose arresting images of the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. became icons of an era, died May 15 of congestive heart failure at Columbia Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Schulke also shot memorable photographs of the boxer Muhammad Ali, pre-Castro Cuba and Fidel Castro, eight presidents and the early astronauts.
He was one of the first photographers allowed inside the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. His photo of the stacked boxes at the window where Lee Harvey Oswald presumably shot the president was one of the defining images of the tragedy.
Mr. Schulke’s work appeared in Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, Look, Sports Illustrated and numerous other publications, as well as in seven books, three of which documented his coverage of the civil rights movement.”
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