Steve Starr

Steve Starr is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer.

Education Starr attended San José State University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in 1967.

Career

Starr worked at Associated Press bureaus in Los Angeles, New York City, Albany, New York, and Miami.

In 1970, his photograph the prior year, "Campus Guns", of armed African-American protesters leaving Willard Straight Hall at Cornell University after negotiating an end to their occupation of the building, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.

Personal life Starr married Marilynne Starr, whom he met as a San Jose State University student. He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 2020, he began work on an autobiography about his career and experiences as a photojournalist and as a Franciscan brother.

Works "Guns on Campus", 1969 "Mourners at the Columbine Memorial", 1999