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At the age of 17, Dirck Halstead was no doubt the youngest photographer covering the 1954 coup détat in Guatemala. As a photographer for Life Magazine, he was in charge of photography for UPI in Saigon during the Vietnam war, and went on to work for Time magazine as the White House photographer (from Nixon to Clinton) Dirck Halstead has photojournalism in his soul. He is currently working as a freelance photographer, running the Digital Journalist, and is professor of photojournalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Here he is offering a retrospective, covering the years from Vietnam to the White House. From the tender age of 17 when he talked Life magazine into sending him to Guatemala, Dirck Halstead has dazzled the public with his images. Here he recounts a fascinating story from his 50-year career.
