UNITED STATES

Dick Swanson's work is included in the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. In 1995, the Center for American History at the University of Texas in Austin asked for Swanson's body of work dating back to 1956--work which covers 40 years, thousands of assignments from 20 different countries and some 100,000 photographs. Swanson started out as staff reporter on the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette while attending the University of Illinois. He worked on the Davenport Democrat and the Des Moines Register newspapers before signing a contract with Black Star in New York. In 1966, he went to Vietnam to cover the war for Life. In 1971, he became the magazine's White House photographer and continues to work out of Washington, producing stories for Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and the Washington Post. He has received awards from the World Press Photo Foundation, the National Press Photographers' Association, and the White House Press Photographers' Association.