Dirck Halstead

[2] Halstead was given a Kodak Duaflex camera by his parents for Christmas when he was 15 years old, and began photojournalism while in high school.

Two years later, he became Life magazine's youngest combat photographer covering the Guatemalan civil war.

The films he worked on included Goodfellas, Memphis Belle, Shaft, Black Rain, Dragon, Dune, Conan the Barbarian series, Greystoke, and Cliffhanger.

[5] Halstead won the National Press Photographers Association Picture of the Year award twice, the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of the fall of Saigon, and two Eisies.

[8] The archive of Halstead's works is located at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin,[5][9][10] where he was a senior fellow in photojournalism.