Chris Johns, OSU freshman class president
- Title
- Chris Johns, OSU freshman class president
- LC Subject
- Photographers Student government Johns, Chris, 1951- Journalism
- Repository
- Oregon State University. Libraries
- Description
- Johns attended OSU from 1970 to 1974. Though he came to OSU to study agriculture, he discovered a passion for photography. After graduating from Oregon State and earning a master’s degree at the University of Minnesota, Johns embarked on a successful career as a photojournalist. He was named the National Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1979. After a number of years as a freelance photographer, he joined National Geographic’s staff in 1995. In 2003 he became editor-in-chief of National Geographic magazine. That same year he was also named as one of the twenty-five most important photographers in the world. Johns was OSU’s 2005 commencement speaker.
- Work Type
- negatives (photographs)
- Location
- Corvallis >> Benton County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 1970
- Identifier
- P003:3731
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Beaver Yearbook Photographs, 1998-2005 (P 003)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- Historical Images of Oregon State University
- Is Part Of
- This image appears in "A School for the People: A Pictorial History of Oregon State University," page 301.
- Institution
- Oregon State University
