| 2012 |
Andrew Stawicki |
| 2011 |
Sabatiao Salgado |
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2010
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Jodi Cobb
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2009
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Wendell Phillips
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2008
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Donald Lyon, APSA
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| 2007 |
Robert E. Gilka |
| 2006 |
Joachim W. Dettmer, APSA, EPSA |
| 2005 |
Steve McCurry |
| 2004 |
James Nachtwey |
| 2003 |
David Handschuh |
| 2002 |
Dave LaBelle |
| 2001 |
Carole Hagaman, FPSA |
| 2000 |
George Butt, FPSA |
| 1999 |
Jack Lacovides |
| 1998 |
Manfred Gsteu, APSA |
| 1997 |
Wanda Christl |
| 1996 |
Lynn Troy Maniscalco, FPSA |
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| 1995 |
Vi Edom |
| 1994 |
Martin M. Bruce, FPSA, EPSA |
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1993
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Robert J. Leonard, FPSA, PPSA
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1992
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Betty Bruce
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1991
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Paul T. Luebke, HonPSA
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| 1990 |
W. Edward Clark |
| 1989 |
Senator Barry Goldwater |
| 1988 |
Stanley Jacobsen |
| 1987 |
Robert W. Ginn |
| 1986 |
Charles Taylor |
| 1985 |
Donna Martin |
| 1984 |
Lois Clarke & Rosalyn MacNish |
| 1983 |
Mim Unruh |
| 1982 |
Edward Walker |
| 1981 |
Ollie Fife |
| 1980 |
Sister Michael Marie |
| 1979 |
Ralph M. Aiello |
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| 1978 |
Larry D. Hanson |
| 1977 |
Paul L. Moloney |
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1976
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Charlotte B. & Dorothy M. Smith
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1975
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Alvin Unruh
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| 1969-1974 |
no award |
| 1968 |
Arthur Rothstein |
| 1967 |
Alfred Eisenstadt |
| 1966 |
Ansel Adams |
| 1965 |
Gordon Parks |
| 1964 |
L. Fritz Gruber |
| 1963 |
Ivan Dmitri |
| 1962 |
David Douglas Duncan |
| 1961 |
Walt Disney |
| 1960 |
Margaret Bourke-White |
| 1959 |
Maurice Van de Wyer |
| 1958 |
Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| 1957 |
Capt. Edward Steichen |
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