Steve Starr
Introduction Starr's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of armed protestors at Cornell University'''Steve Starr''' is a Pulitzer Prize winning American photographer. He has since retired from photography, and since 2014, has served as a Third Order Franciscan Brother at Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Colorado Springs.
Life Starr attended San José State University, for a BA in Journalism, graduating in 1967.He worked for the Associated Press in four bureaus, Los Angeles, New York City, Albany, NY, and Miami, FL. "Campus Guns," his photograph of armed African American protesters leaving Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University, won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1970.He married Marilynne Starr, who he met at San José State University. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has been writing a autobiography since 2020 about his experiences as a photojournalist and as a Franciscan Brother.
Awards * May 4, 1970 - Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
Works *Guns on Campus, 1969*Mourners at the Columbine Memorial, 1999
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