Dick Durrance Biography

Dick Durrance studied at Andover and Dartmouth College where he majored in art and studied leadership as president of his class was a member of the Green Key Society Casque & Gauntlet (a senior society) and captain of the ski team. As a skier he learned a lot about competition and was twice named an All-American skier.
In 1964 as an undergraduate at Dartmouth Durrance joined a team of students organizing an expedition to paddle canoes down the Danube River. He served as one of the two photographers. Incredibly the pictures they captured were published as a 45-page cover story in National Geographic magazine opening the door to a career in photography.
He served as a U.S. Army combat photographer in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 where he saw conflict up close. The National Press Photographers Association honored him with 1st 2nd and 3rd place awards in the 1969 Military Photographs of the Year competition.
Circling the globe as a National Geographic staff photographer from 1969 to 1976 Durrance continued to develop his creative vision producing the images for nine stories and three books. The assignments were a great lesson in how important connecting with people is to expressing creative vision. The White House News Photographers Association selected him as their Magazine Photographer of the Year in 1972.

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