Stan Grossfeld (born December 20, 1951) is an associate editor at ''

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'' who has won two

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for photojournalism. He was born in

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and graduated from the

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with a B.S. in Professional Photography in 1973. After two years in

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, at ''

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'' he went to work for ''The Boston Globe''. While working there he completed a Master of Journalism at

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in 1980. He became chief photographer at the ''Globe'' in 1983. Next year he won the

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for a "series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon" ( Lebanese Civil War, third phase). In 1985 he won the Feature Photography Pulitzer for a "series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for his pictures of illegal aliens on the

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.""Feature Photography"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-13. Named associate editor of the ''Globe'' in 1987, Grossfeld photographs many subjects, including sports.

References

Accessed 18 November 2006. * Fischer & Fischer, ''Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917–2000'', K.G. Saur, 2000.

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* 1951 births American photojournalists Boston University College of Communication alumni Rochester Institute of Technology alumni The Boston Globe people Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography winners Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners Photography in Lebanon Living people Journalists from New York City {{US-photographer-stub