Will Counts, the photographer who captured the desegregation drama of 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas, has died of cancer. His picture of 15-year-old black student Elizabeth Eckford, entering Little Rock's Central High School surrounded by a jeering white crowd, was named by The Associated Press as one of the top 100 photographs of the 20th century and helped bring him a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Eckford, Counts recalled, "became a symbol for the Little Rock crisis." Counts taught photojournalism at Indiana University for 32 years, retiring in 1995. He had lived in Bloomington since 1960.
Passage: Will Counts, 70
Will Counts, the photographer who captured the desegregation drama of 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas, has died of cancer. His picture of 15-year-old black student Elizabeth Eckford, entering Little Rock's Central High School surrounded by a jeering white crowd, was named by The Associated Press as one of the top 100 photographs of the 20th century and helped bring him a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. Eckford, Counts recalled, "became a symbol for the Little Rock crisis." Counts taught photojournalism at Indiana University for 32 years, retiring in 1995. He had lived in Bloomington since 1960.
