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Howard Sochurek (1924 - 25 April 1994 in Miami, Florida) was an American photojournalist.

Life and career

Howard J. Sochurek was born in 1924. He graduated from Princeton University in 1942 then enlisted December 1, 1942 in Milwaukee Wisconsin, to fight in the Second World War.

From 1950 Sochurek worked for LIFE from their New York, Chicago, Detroit, New Delhi, Singapore and Paris offices,^[1] During the Korean War he was parachuted with the 187th Airborne RCT behind enemy lines to photograph American troops, and in the First Indochina War covered the French defeat at Battle of Dien Bien Phu, and subsequently, the Vietnam War.^[2]

Recognition

In 1955 Sochurek was awarded the first Robert Capa Gold Medal. Sochurek worked in the Life of his career in addition to the company's offices, France. His image 'Willing hands bring progress', of silhouetted construction workers in India was selected by Edward Steichen for his globally-touring The Family of Man exhibition, and Sochurek also documented the installation of the exhibition for publicity.

Contribution to medical imaging

Sochurek left LIFE in 1970 after two decades to work as a freelancer. He was among the first photographers to use computers to produce computer-enhanced, colourised X-ray and CT scans. His reputation among medical circles grew, and many doctors and pharmaceutical and other medical companies used his photographs in textbooks and advertisements.^[3]

In retirement, Sochurek settled in Boynton Beach, Florida. He died of liver cancer at the age of 69, in April 1994 in Miami at the Jackson Memorial Hospital, survived by his wife Tania and daughter Tania DeChiara

Publications

Sochurek, Howard (1988), Medicine's new vision, Mack Pub. Co, ISBN 978-0-912734-25-5
Sochurek, Howard; De Visser, John, (illus.) (1973), The new Russians, EMC Corp, ISBN 978-0-88436-000-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Sochurek, Howard; De Visser, John, (illus.) (1973), Lifelines for the new frontier, EMC Corp, ISBN 978-0-88436-006-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Sochurek, Howard; De Visser, John, (illus.) (1973), The first Siberians, EMC Corp, ISBN 978-0-88436-002-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Sochurek, Howard; De Visser, John, (illus.) (1973), Siberia at work, EMC Corp, ISBN 978-0-88436-004-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References

^ Cookman, Claude Hubert; Medill School of Journalism (2009), American photojournalism : motivations and meanings, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Press, ISBN 978-0-8101-2358-8
^ "Veteran news correspondent Howard Sochurek supported Galbraith’s cautionary view, warning President Kennedy agains Diem and asserting that this ‘Dirty War’ was ‘rapidly becoming ours’". Jones, Howard (2003), Death of a generation : how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-505286-2 p.165
^ ‘At the same time that Life was publishing [Lennart] Nilsson, National Geographic was fostering the parallel career of the American photojournalist Howard Sochurek. A battlefield photographer in the Pacific during World War II, Sochurek developed an interest in medical photography and technical computer image processing in the 1980s. National Geographic’s January 1987 issue features Sochurek’s photographic essay in which, using himself as a subject, he discovered that the CT scanner had revealed glitch in his own system. The picture was a false alarm, though, and Sochurek continued experiencing and photographing images in every imaging mode. The high visual quality of Sochurek’s photographic prints give the deceptive impression that the map of the brain is almost filled out…’Kevles, Bettyann (1997), Naked to the bone : medical imaging in the twentieth century, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 978-0-8135-2358-3

[1] Cookman, Claude Hubert; Medill School of Journalism (2009), American photojournalism : motivations and meanings, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Press, ISBN 978-0-8101-2358-8

[2] "Veteran news correspondent Howard Sochurek supported Galbraith’s cautionary view, warning President Kennedy agains Diem and asserting that this ‘Dirty War’ was ‘rapidly becoming ours’". Jones, Howard (2003), Death of a generation : how the assassinations of Diem and JFK prolonged the Vietnam War, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-505286-2 p.165

[3] ‘At the same time that Life was publishing [Lennart] Nilsson, National Geographic was fostering the parallel career of the American photojournalist Howard Sochurek. A battlefield photographer in the Pacific during World War II, Sochurek developed an interest in medical photography and technical computer image processing in the 1980s. National Geographic’s January 1987 issue features Sochurek’s photographic essay in which, using himself as a subject, he discovered that the CT scanner had revealed glitch in his own system. The picture was a false alarm, though, and Sochurek continued experiencing and photographing images in every imaging mode. The high visual quality of Sochurek’s photographic prints give the deceptive impression that the map of the brain is almost filled out…’Kevles, Bettyann (1997), Naked to the bone : medical imaging in the twentieth century, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 978-0-8135-2358-3

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