biography
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Chapelle, Dickey
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originally Georgette Louis Meyer
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pronunciation:
[shapel]
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| female
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| lived:
| (1918–65)
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| biography:
| Pioneer pilot, adventurer, and journalist, born in Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA. After attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year, she acquired expertise as a barnstorming pilot and photojournalist, and worked as a war correspondent in World War 2. After a spell as an editor of Seventeen (1946–7), she and her husband, photographer Tony Chapelle, spent six years documenting the devastation caused by World War 2. In 1956–7, while photographing Hungarian refugees, she was imprisoned for seven weeks in Hungary, but unperturbed she continued to visit ongoing war zones in Algeria, Lebanon, and Korea, and photographed Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba. She won a George Polk Award (1962) for her war reporting, and was killed by a mine explosion while covering the war in Vietnam. |
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