Steve szabo photographer biography

1962: Part-time Photography Lab Assistant, The Washington Post · 1971: Took a six month leave of absence from The....

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  • Szabo, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis about three years ago, was among the first represented artists of the Kathleen Ewing Gallery when it opened two.
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    • Photojournalistic stardom came swiftly to this renowned artist who, while studying landscape architecture in 1962, was offered and accepted a temporary assignment assisting in the photography department at the Washington Post.

    Photography won. Steve Szabo freelanced in Washington, worked for a small newspaper in the Caribbean, studied the medium formally at the Art Center in Los Angeles, and returned to the Post as its youngest staff photographer.

    From 1965 to 1971 he covered every demonstration and riot during that tumultuous time when civil rights took center stage and Washington DC was a major arena. He won awards that included the top prize for feature photography from the prestigious White House News Photographers Association.

    Feeling burned out from all the violence he had witnessed and documented he retreated to the Eastern Shore for a six-month leave of absence, which stretched into a two-year sojourn.

    About this time, he became interested in the platinum process of making