{"id":20170,"date":"2016-06-07T07:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=20170"},"modified":"2016-06-07T07:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:30:49","slug":"a-tribute-to-osu-alum-david-gilkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/06\/07\/a-tribute-to-osu-alum-david-gilkey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to OSU alum David Gilkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Special Collections and Archives Research Center Director Larry Landis for this lovely tribute to David Gilkey.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Photographer David Gilkey, website photo without attribution.<\/p><\/div>\n

I never met David Gilkey. But I shed a tear Sunday evening when I learned that the National Public Radio photographer\/videographer was killed earlier that day in Afghanistan, along with his NPR translator, Zabihullah Tamanna. David attended OSU in the mid 1980s and went on to become an award-winning photographer with the Detroit Free Press<\/em> and National Public Radio.<\/p>\n

There were two degrees of separation between David and me. I know his father, Richard (Dick)\u00a0Gilkey, who was an OSU alumnus (BS 1951 and MS 1953) and an excellent photographer in his own right. Dick\u00a0was a student photographer here, taking photographs of campus events for the Barometer<\/em>, Beaver<\/em> yearbook, and the Oregon Stater<\/em>. He was shooting cover images for the Stater as a sophomore<\/strong><\/em> and working as a stringer for the Oregon Journal<\/em> newspaper in Portland. Clearly, photographic talent runs deep in the Gilkey family.<\/p>\n

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Richard Gilkey<\/p><\/div>\n

Dick, long a friend of the OSU Libraries and Press, donated the photographs from his student days to SCARC in 2004 and 2005. The more than 1,000 images in the collection document student life, athletic events and facilities, drama productions. He created an iconic series of portraits of several Oregon State faculty, some of which were used as Stater<\/em> cover images. One of my favorite Gilkey images is of students taking final exams in the MU ballroom. I used it as the opening image for chapter 5, \u201cAcademics at OSU,\u201d in A School for the People: A Pictorial History of Oregon State University<\/em>. The book also includes a wonderful portrait of Richard as a student photographer.<\/p>\n

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