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Joseph Costa was a veteran newspaper photographer whose career spanned 60 years. For nearly 44 years he was photographer, chief photographer, or photo supervisor on the New York Morning World, New York Morning News, the New York Daily News, the New York Daily Mirror, and King Features Syndicate. Until 1985, he taught photojournalism at Ball State University, which awarded him an honorary degree when he retired.

One of Mr. Costa's main interests was freedom of Information. To make courtroom photography possible, he worked on a technical education program for photographers, demonstrations before lawyers and judges, and a respectable and responsible image for the press photographer. He is frequently introduced before his articles as "Mr. Press Photography." In one of his articles on freedom of the press, he states:

The proper dissemination of news by a free press is not accomplished solely by the printed word. There is a visual record, too, that must be transmitted to do the complete job. The object of this complete job, of course, is the informed public on which our democracy stands.

He was a founder, first president, and chairman of the board of the National Press Photographers Association and executive editor or the official NPPA magazine, National Press Photographer, from 1946 to 1966. The NPPA's Joseph Costa Award and its Joseph Costa Award for Courtroom Photography are named in his honor.

From the guide to the Joseph Costa Papers, 1946-1967, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

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associatedWith American Judicature Society. corporateBody
associatedWith American Medical Association. corporateBody
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associatedWith American Press Institute. corporateBody
associatedWith American Red Cross. corporateBody
associatedWith American Society of Magazine Photographers. corporateBody
associatedWith American Society of Newspaper Editors. corporateBody
associatedWith American Standards Association. corporateBody
associatedWith Associated Press. corporateBody
associatedWith Bennet, James. person
associatedWith Berman, Morris S. (Morris Stanley). person
associatedWith Cigar Institute of America. corporateBody
associatedWith Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. corporateBody
associatedWith Eastman Kodak Company. corporateBody
associatedWith Faber, John, 1918- person
associatedWith Famous Photographers School. corporateBody
associatedWith King Features Syndicate. corporateBody
associatedWith National Press Photographers Association (U.S.). corporateBody
associatedWith Trans World Airlines. corporateBody
associatedWith Witman, Arthur, 1902-1991 person
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