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Chris Gulker

Chris Gulker
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Born Christian Frederick Gulker
(1951-03-10)10 March 1951
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died 27 October 2010(2010-10-27) (aged 59)
Menlo Park, California, U.S.
Nationality American
Education Occidental College, AB in Comparative Literature
Website http://gulker.com

Christian Frederick Gulker (10 March 1951 – 27 October 2010) was an American photographer, programmer, writer, and pioneer in electronic publishing.

A "Silicon Valley pioneer," Gulker was "instrumental in introducing the digital publishing era to the newspaper industry" and was a central figure in the early history of blogging.

Born in New York City, Gulker grew up on the shores of Lake Erie near Erie, Pennsylvania. He was a 1969 graduate of Western Reserve Academy of Hudson, Ohio, and an alumnus of Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, where he earned a degree in Comparative Literature. He worked as a dishwasher, cab driver, tow truck operator and barman before he was hired in 1978 as a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, where the photography department came to view him as "one of its brightest stars." He also worked as a freelancer, and has been published in Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Glamour and the New York Times and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Gulker contributed to the National Press Photographers Association's Electronic Photojournalism Workshop.

Gulker moved to San Francisco after the Herald-Examiner closed in 1989, and joined the San Francisco Examiner, where he initially served as picture editor and led the photography staff's transition from film to digital cameras. His work made possible an all-Macintosh-produced edition of The Examiner after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake led to a power shutdown that idled the newspaper's publishing system.


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