Wayman, Stan, 1927-1973

Stanley Edmond Wayman was born in Moore Haven, Florida, in 1927. He got his first camera when he was 12, and pursued his vocation in the Navy’s V-5 program and later as a darkroom technician for Pan American airlines. He joined the Miami Herald in 1950 and began freelancing in 1955. He moved to LIFE magazine in 1957, where he worked at the Chicago bureau. Subsequent postings to New York, Bonn, and Paris culminated in his becoming Moscow bureau chief in 1962. In 1964 he moved to the Washington, D. C. bureau. Wayman won many awards during his career from the White House News Photographers Association and the National Press Photographers Association. He also received the Albert Schweitzer Medal from the Animal Welfare Institute. Wayman died in 1973.

From the guide to the Stan Wayman Photographic Archive 2008-313., c.1945-1970s, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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