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Pidu" ::..oditonore photogro plMnoft .. ","', go bock ~""picIu" isn" pttftd, "",Wdiamno discuuing . phaI.dory with -'<shop student Shawn O'Maley. arty years ago, newspaper ph~ Security Administration photographs Ftographers practiced what Cliff taken during the Depression under Edom, 8J '46, calls "stand 'em the direction of Roy Stryker, Edom, up, shoot 'em down" photography. along with his wife, Vi, set up the first But these stimy posed shots that relied Missouri Photo Workshop in 1949. on plenty of flash were not bow The project, at first funded out of the Edom, the father of photojournalism Edams' own pockets, is now part of and University professor, thought the School of Jouma1ism's eminence Sto,,' b,' JOAI'" M. MCKEE newspapers should present the world. program and is supported in part by PholM b,. JEfF ADAMS Inspired by the realism of Fann $21,500 in money and equipment 22 I ISS OURI Al UMNUS SPiING 1919 Leh, wotluhop IouncieBCliff and Vi Edom look at 1988 wotluhop photogropln ot a public showing. Below, Min", _hrll11 Sco" . nd Kothleen Bur.. process film in a bathtub ofttn 30 roIk ot a time. from Eastman Kodak Co. Edom, 82, retired in 1986 as direc tor, but he and Vi continue as staff members. A former assistant manager of the Missouri Press Association, Vi Edom has been the historian and keeper of the workshop records since it began. "I founded the workshop," Edom says, "but Vidid all the work." Since that first workshop in Colum bia, professional and student photog raphers have descended upon 38 Mis souri towns following Edom's direc ti ve to "show truth with a camera" through unposed., documentary photo essays.
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