Condolences to a Great Photographer: Robert "Bobby" Sengstacke he was 73 Courtesy of CHICAGO (WLS) and HistoryMakers A member of one of Chicago's most renowned publishing families has died. Robert "Bobby" Sengstacke - a member of the Chicago Defender Sengstacke family and a long-time photographer for the paper - died Tuesday following a long respiratory illness. Sengstacke's photos of prominent black leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali were widely published. Sengstacke was 73. Memorial services are pending. Photographer and heir of a distinguished African American newspaper publisher, Robert Abbott Sengstacke, popularly known as “Bobby,” was born May 29, 1943, in Chicago, Illinois. Named after the founder of the Chicago Defender, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, Bobby attended the University of Chicago Lab School, Manument boarding school in Pennsylvania and Howalton Day School in Chicago before attending Hyde Park High School. Sengstacke graduated from Central YMCA High School in 1962. Artistic and restless, he attended Florida’s Bethune Cookman College for three and a half years before returning to Chicago. Growing up with the newspaper gave Sengstacke unique access to important events and people. Learning to shoot from Le Mont Mac Lemore, Billy Abernathy and Bob Black of the Chicago Sun-Times in the mid-1950s, Sengstacke’s thousands of black and white photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Imamu Baraka and other well-known figures, places and events are widely published. His compositions, Spiritual Grace and Saviour’s Day, are included in the “We Shall Overcome” exhibit and are from his days as staff photographer for the Nation Of Islam’s periodical, Muhammad Speaks. His work also appears in most Black Arts Movement anthologies of the 1960s and 1970s. Widely collected and archived, Sengstacke has been recognized for his photography. In recent years, Sengstacke has returned to the family business, joining with other family members in working with the Chicago Defender. He has been active in helping to increase the circulation of the paper, which remains as one of the nation’s last African American daily newspapers. Sengstacke was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on December 19, 2003. posted by Marcellous Lovelace
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