Mannie Garcia

Mannie Garcia is an American freelance photojournalist currently based in Washington, D.C. His photos have been in many publications including TIME, The Washington Post and USA Today.

The AP photo by Mannie Garcia (upper left), was shown to be a near perfect match, in contrast with a Reuters photograph (lower left) earlier purported to be the source.^[1][2][3]

His photos of the Ramstein airshow disaster in West Germany won a World Press Photo Award in 1989. During the disaster, Garcia narrowly escaped death when a flying chunk of one of the jet's wings nearly hit him in the head. One of his cameras was smashed by shrapnel, preventing it from hitting him instead. After shooting photos of the crashing jets and fleeing spectators, Garcia helped the wounded.^[4] Sixty-seven spectators and three pilots died in the disaster, and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire.

In the early 90s Garcia shot photos of the Somali Civil War. In the mid 1990s he photographed the Bosnian War for The New York Times.

Garcia's photograph of President George W. Bush surveying the damage from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 from the high remove of Air Force One became a symbol of his administration's slow and detached reaction to the human suffering and wreckage below.^[5]

In April 2006, Garcia took the photograph of Barack Obama that was later used uncredited by artist Shepard Fairey as the basis of Fairey's Barack Obama HOPE poster.^[6]

References

1. ^ Tom Gralish, "MYSTERY SOLVED! The Obama Poster Photographer ID'd", Scene on the Road, January 14, 2009. Accessed January 17, 2009.
2. ^ stevesimula, fairey poster photo source?, Flickr, January 20, 2009. Accessed January 20, 2009.
3. ^ Tom Gralish, "Found - AGAIN - the Poster Source Photo", Scene on the Road, January 21, 2009. Accessed January 22, 2009.
4. ^ Time Magazine, December 26, 1988, Pg. 43
5. ^ Stolberg, Sheryl Gay (2006-08-28). "Year After Katrina, Bush Still Fights for 9/11 Image". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/us/nationalspecial/28bush.html. Retrieved 2009-03-08. 
6. ^ Carnwath, Ally (2009-02-15). "The man who made an icon". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/15/mannie-garcia-barack-obama-poster. Retrieved 2009-02-27. 

External links

• Mannie Garcia's Obama Image: Viewing Journalism as a Work of Art by Noam Cohen, The New York Times, March 23, 2009

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