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Russ Reed Photographer - Oakland CA 1950's


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Posted 08 August 2012 - 16:55

Russ Reed, a former award winning Oakland Tribune photographer known for his auto racing pictures, died in 1992. Reed won the sports photograph of the year award from Life Magazine in 1952 of the Stock car pile up at the Oakland Speedway. Photographer Russell Reed won a number of national awards for the Oakland Tribune and served on its staff for more than forty years. In 1995 the paper, founded in 1874, donated its photo "morgue" to the Oakland Museum of California. Anyone looking for Reed's work should contact the museum at http://museumca.org/ and they are located at 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA 94607. (510) 318-8400

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Chad Struer