Roy Joseph Zalesky Collection
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content: Street photographer, photojournalist and gallery owner, Roy Joseph Zalesky (April 13, 1943-September 2, 2015) was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and lived in the Twin Cities until graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1966 with a BA in Journalism. Roy was a staff photographer for the <i>News and Observer</i> in Raleigh, North Carolina from 1966 to 1968 during which time he photographed Martin Luther King, Jr’s visit to Raleigh (possibly July 31, 1966, at Reynolds Coliseum), a staff photographer at the <i>Milwaukee Journal</i> from 1969 to 1973, and was a photographer for the Black Star photo agency.
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content: Taking a break from the photography business, but not the practice, Roy became a social worker from 1974 to 1976 for the New Hanover County Department of Social Services in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1977, he and fellow photographer Michael Clemmer opened Front Street Gallery in downtown Wilmington for which Zalesky was Director until 1984, when he sold his photography gallery, moved to Charlotte with his future wife, continued taking photographs, and exhibited his work in galleries such as the Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University and the Kathleen Ewing Gallery in Washington DC. He and his wife moved to Maine in 1986 where Roy worked as a photojournalist for <i>The Ellsworth American</i> in Ellsworth and he and his wife Elise had a daughter, Hanna. The family moved back to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1993 where Roy retired. He died in Wilmington in 2017.
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content: See also <i>American Photographer</i>, issue 10, 1983, p.88; "25th Anniversary Celebration: Visual Communication at the University of Minnesota": [exhibition], October 6-December 8, 1985, University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, p. 7
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content: Journalism
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: National Museum of American History
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content: COLL.PHOTOS.000106
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content: Roy Joseph Zalesky Collection