| LC control no. | n 93027827 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bingham, Howard L. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1939-05-29 |
| Death date | 2016-12-15 |
| Place of birth | Jackson (Miss.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Photography |
| Affiliation | Compton Community College (Compton, Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers Authors |
| Found in | Muhammad Ali, c1993: CIP t.p. (Howard L. Bingham) galley (Black photographer-newspaperman) Muhammad Ali's greatest fight, 2000: CIP t.p. (Howard Bingham) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Bingham, Howard; photographer and writer; born 29 May 1939 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States; attended Compton Junior College in the late 1950s; left college and began an apprenticeship at the Los Angeles Sentinel; after one month at the Sentinel, he was hired as a staff photographer; provided coverage of the Watts riots during the summer of 1966; Life magazine would later contract him to cover riots nationally, making him only the second black photographer to do contract work with the publication; also covered the 1968 National Democratic Convention in Chicago; he was one of the few photographers allowed access into the world of the Black Panthers; in 1997 received the International Award from the American Society of Photographers / Professional Photographers of America, and Photographer of the Year from the Photographic Marketing Distribution Association) Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 19, 2016 (Howard Bingham, a photographer who shot millions of images of Muhammad Ali and became a well-known figure in his own right through his long and abiding friendship with the boxing champion and humanitarian, died Dec. 15 [2016] at a Los Angeles hospital; he was 77; Howard Lenoid Bingham was born May 29, 1939, in Jackson, Miss.; he was 4 when his family moved to Los Angeles) |
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