AWARD DATE: 1967
AWARD NAME: Best Magazine or Book Photographic Reporting or Interpretation From Abroad
AWARD RECIPIENT: Lee Lockwood
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Black Star Publishing
AWARD HONORED WORK: “Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel”
Lee Lockwood, affiliated with Black Star Publishing, New York, for his book Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel (McMillan); for “Cuba, 1967” in Look, and for “North Vietnam under Siege” in Life.
Versatility with camera and typewriter has been demonstrated strikingly by Lee Lockwood in the book Castro’s Cuba; Cuba’s Fidel.” But the OPC panel scrutinizing the entries in category 4 was not content to hand him there accolade on that ground alone.
His feature in Look on “Cuba, 1967,” “and another in Life, on “North Vietnam under siege,” were labeled as integral factors in the decision that selected him as “combining all the requirements for the best photographic reporting in a magazine or book.”
Lee Lockwood is one of those rarities, a native of New York, where he was born in 1932. The product of Yale and Boston universities, with graduate work at Columbia University, he is a former editor of Contemporary Photographer Quarterly and Rockefeller artist-in-residence in educational television at WGBH-TV in Boston.
At present he is working on a book on the late Che Guevara for Random House, and has contributed picture-stories to various publications, including the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Ramparts, Paris
Match, Der Stern, London Observer, London Sunday Times.
Citation for Excellence: Burt Glinn, Magnum Photos, for his book A Portrait of All The Russias, text by Laurens Van Der Post (William Morrow & Company).
Citation for Excellence: William H. Strode, Louisville CourierJournal & Times Sunday Magazine, for his one-man edition “Vietnam Closeup”.
Citation for Excellence: Life, for “Israel’s Swift Victory,” a special issue on the Israeli-Arab war.