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Alysia Burton Steele | |
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| Occupation | Photographer |
| Known for | Delta Jewels |
| Website | http://www.alysiaburton.com |
Alysia Steele A photographer by training wrote in the NYTimes is a staff photographer at some prestigious place as been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2006 with her team of the Dallas Morning News on coverage of Hurricane Katrina, and an Emmy Award for her work.
(Please rework this first sentence to describes the notable work, and that she was part of a team that won the Pulitzer. Did she win an Emmy also or is that leftover from the template? Generally ONE sentence.)
Biography & Career
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Alysia Burton Steele has been a professor at Ole Miss for over four years now. She loves teaching and says how her students keep her young.
Steele shares a love for photographer for over 30 years. It all started when she was fifteen years old wondering the streets of Philadelphia with her mother exploring and photgraphing life greatest moments. (please cite any facts and attribute any superlatives to others.)
Steele work for the Dallas Morning News and Atlanta Journal-Constitution and now is an Author of her famous book Delta Jewels. A book about 50 women from Mississippi Delta women church elders. These women have shared their life experiences when the Jim Crow area was going on and the struggles they went through with race and gender. This book is not only empowering to the women involved in it but women around the world. Alyssa moved to Mississippi because she got a message from God saying she had a calling to do so. Her and her husband moved there a few years back with very little money, that she would spend on gas to go and visit these women. (please cite any facts and attribute any superlatives to others.)
Awards
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2016 Humanities Award
2016 Recipient of "Preserver of Mississippi Culture Award"
Steele was apart of a team at The Dallas Morning News that was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Price for coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
Steele was awarded the Preserver of Mississippi Culture in 2016 for In Search of my Grandmothers Wisdom.
More accurate to say: Steele was part of a team at The Dallas Morning News that was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for CATEGORY for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. The citation from the Pulitzer called the work.....
Books & Exhibitions
editDelta Jewels hit the bookshelves on April 7, 2015. A book about women who share their life experiences with her when the Jim Crow area was going on. She wanted to see what her Grandmother saw when she was going through a time where their fathers were shot for asking for a full tank of gas.
Steele took all of her pictures for Delta Jewels in black and white. Not only because it gave it a different effect but she wanted to capture the pictures as if they were taken back when these women were going through a hard time. (Please use ISBN#, cite any reviews. Describe book)
External Links
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References http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/05/a_mother_s_love_stories_of_struggle_sacrifice_love_and_wisdom.html http://carolinascw.com/2015/05/28/pulitzer-winning-alysia-burton-steele-shares-her-delta-jewels-with-spartaburg/ http://www.fredericksburg.com/entertainment/arts/books/book-review-delta-jewels-in-search-of-my-grandmother-s/article_0b5f9741-b814-5d2f-8899-afc7715ca6b5.html http://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/now-youre-talking/2015/12/14/now-youre-talking-author-alysia-burton-steele/ http://news.wabe.org/post/delta-jewels-tells-poignant-tales-southern-black-women http://www.mshumanities.com/index.php/story/mississippi_humanities_council_announces_2016_humanities_award_winners/
Category:Living people Category:American photographers Category:American photojournalists Category:American women photographers Category:American women journalists