Gena Asher | Sept. 19, 2008
The University of Central Arkansas honored alumnus Ira Wilmer "Will" Counts Friday with a posthumous honorary doctorate for his accomplishments in photojournalism.Counts was known for his Pulitzer Prize nominated photographs of the Little Rock Central High School desegregation in 1957. The Associated Press named Counts’ photographs as some of the best in the 20th century. Encyclopedia Britannica selected his photographs as one of the world’s 50 most memorable news pictures of the last 50 years.
After a career shooting for Associated Press, Counts (M.S. '54, Ed.D. '67) came to the IU School of Journalism where he taught for 32 years, retiring in 1995, six years before his death. The IU Archives houses a collection of his photographs and many may be viewed on the walls around Ernie Pyle Hall.
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