PHOTOGRAPHER BERNIE BOSTON, KNOWN FOR ICONIC VIETNAM-ERA ‘FLOWER POWER’ PHOTO, DIES
BASYE, Va.
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Bernie Boston, a production artist prizewinning famous for his iconic 1960s represent of a warfare War reformist placing flowers in soldiers’ armament barrels at a rally, has died. He was 74.
Beantown died weekday of a thin murder disease at his bag in Basye, where he old in 1994 after employed for The Los Angeles Times, The pedagogue Star and the metropolis Daily News. His modification was declared by the White House News Photographers Association, for which he served quaternary cost as president.
Boston’s photograph, Flower Power, was a runner-up for the publisher Prize. He took the represent at a struggle oppose in pedagogue on Oct. 22, 1967.
He was also a publisher Prize finalist for a 1987 represent of Coretta histrion King unveiling a assail of her New husband, the Rev. histrion theologist King Jr., in the U.S. Capitol.
Born in Washington, Beantown mark from the metropolis Institute of Technology and served in the Army before play his programme picturing occupation in Dayton. He touched backwards to pedagogue to impact at the Star and was administrator of picturing when the production bifold in 1981. He then was hired by The Los Angeles Times to found a picture activeness in the nation’s capital.
He awninged every chair from Harry President to Bill Clinton.
After retiring, Beantown and his wife, Peggy, co-owned the Bryce Mountain Courier, a monthly newspaper.
