Awards & Winners

Brian Lanker

Date of Birth 31-August-1947
Place of Birth Detroit
(Wayne County, Michigan, United States of America, Area code 313)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Television Director, Television Producer, Photographer
Brian Lanker was an American photographer. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a black-and-white photo essay on childbirth for The Topeka Capital-Journal, including the photograph "Moment of Life". Lanker died at his home in Eugene, Oregon on March 13, 2011 after a brief bout of pancreatic cancer. He was 63. His work appeared in Life and Sports Illustrated, as well as book projects, including I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America, and Track Town, USA. He was the graphics director for The Register-Guard newspaper in Eugene from 1974 to 1982. Lanker is the father of musician Dustin Lanker.

Awards by Brian Lanker

Check all the awards nominated and won by Brian Lanker.

1984


World Press Photo Award for People in the News
Honored for : Portraits of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold medal winners
(Stories)

Nominations 1984 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo Award for People in the News Portraits of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold medal winners
Stories

1973


Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography
(For his sequence on child birth, as exemplified by his photograph, 'Moment of Life.')