Famed Photographer Richard Meek Dies NASSAU AND SUFFOLK Edition

People as varied as Richard Nixon, Bette Davis, Lady Bird Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Bill Cosby and James Cagney posed before Meek's camera. His eye captured Olympic moments - such as U.S. runner Bobby Morrow's pair of gold medal sprints at the 1956 summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia - an...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author Joshua Berkman. STAFF WRITER
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 01.02.2003
EditionCombined editions
Subjects
Ali, Muhammad (1942-2016)
Dies, Richard Meek
Leifer, Neil
Meek, Richard A
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Summary:People as varied as Richard Nixon, Bette Davis, Lady Bird Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Bill Cosby and James Cagney posed before Meek's camera. His eye captured Olympic moments - such as U.S. runner Bobby Morrow's pair of gold medal sprints at the 1956 summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia - and his trigger finger froze those images in time. [Neil Leifer] regarded Meek as one of his mentors. He notes that, as even-tempered as Meek was, he always emerged from the crowded scrum of competing photographers with a money shot. 1) Photo by William Baker - Meek, shown in 2000, worked in his basement studio creating abstract images. 2) Photo - Meek's shot if sprinter Bobby Morrow at the 1956 Olympics made the cover of Life. 3) Photographer [Richard A. Meek], right, made his mark with shots like that above of [Cassius Clay] (Muhammad Ali) from 1964.