{{short description|American photojournalist}}{{Infobox artist | name = | birth_date = June 24, 1930 | death_date = May 15, 2008 | known_for = Photography | birth_place = New Ulm, Minnesota | education = [[Macalester College]] }} '''Graeme Phelps''' "'''Flip'''" '''Schulke'''<ref name=":0" /> (June{{nbsp}}24, 1930{{snd}}May{{nbsp}}15, 2008)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Horne|first=Madison|title=An Intimate View of MLK Through the Lens of a Friend|url=https://www.history.com/news/mlk-photos-selma-march-on-washington-flip-schulke|access-date=2020-12-22|website=HISTORY|date=18 January 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Flip Schulke {{!}} artnet|url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/flip-schulke/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=www.artnet.com}}</ref> was an American photographer. [[File:MEMBER OF THE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY OF SOUTH BEACH - NARA - 548611.tif|thumb|296x296px|A photograph by Schulke from [[Documerica]]]]
== Early life and education == Schulke grew up in [[New Ulm, Minnesota]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2008-02-19|title=About|url=http://www.flipschulke.com/about/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Flip Schulke Photography|language=en-US}}</ref> His nickname "Flip" came about from his interest in gymnastics.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|date=2019-11-24|title=Flip Schulke: Photographer who links US civil rights movement to Berlin Wall|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50466648|access-date=2020-12-22}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2008-05-15|title=MLK Photographer Graeme Phelps "Flip" Schulke, 77|url=https://nppa.org/news/1394|access-date=2020-12-22|website=NPPA|language=en}}</ref> He graduated from [[Macalester College]], then moved to Miami.<ref name=":1" />
== Career == He taught briefly at the [[University of Miami]], then began working as a freelance photographer.<ref name=":1" /> He worked for ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', and covered a variety of events, including the [[Cuban Revolution]].<ref name=":1" />
In 1962, he visited and photographed the Berlin Wall.<ref name=":2" />
Schulke began photographing the civil rights movement in the American south as early as 1956.<ref name=":1" />
Schulke formed a bond with civil rights activist [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr]]. after an all-night conversation in 1958, and began photographing him.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> King invited Schulke to photograph secret planning meetings of the [[Southern Christian Leadership Conference]], though not all of the activists trusted him being there.<ref name=":0" /> He also photographed the [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|1963 March on Washington]]<ref name=":0" /> and the 1965 [[Selma to Montgomery marches|Selma to Montgomery March]].<ref name=":0" /> They traveled together until King's death in 1968,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|date=2020-11-02|title=Online database, new book give access to some of Briscoe Center's vast collections|url=https://news.utexas.edu/2020/11/01/online-database-new-book-give-access-to-some-of-briscoe-centers-vast-collections/|access-date=2020-12-22|website=UT News|language=en-US}}</ref> which upset Schulke so much that he stopped covering the civil rights movement and began to work on more commercial projects.<ref name=":2" /> In all, he took around 11,000 photographs of King, including some of his funeral.<ref name=":0" />
Schulke photographed [[Muhammad Ali]],<ref name=":3" /> [[Jacques Cousteau]],<ref name=":3" /> [[Fidel Castro]]<ref name=":3" /> and [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name=":3" /> He also was a photographer for the Environmental Protection Agency's [[Documerica]] program in the early 1970s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/10567820|access-date=2022-05-03|title=Personal Authority Record|website=catalog.archives.gov}}</ref>
== Later life == Schulke died on May 15, 2008, at age 77.<ref name=":1" />
The [[Dolph Briscoe Center for American History]] at the University of Texas at Austin holds 300,000 of his photographs.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> His photographs are also held in a variety of museums, including the [[Harvard Art Museums]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Harvard|title=Harvard Art Museums|url=https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/person/22226|access-date=2020-12-22|website=harvardartmuseums.org|language=en}}</ref> the [[Cleveland Museum of Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Cleveland Museum of Art, Artist: Flip Schulke|url=https://www.clevelandart.org/art/collection/search?filter-artist=Flip%20Schulke|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Cleveland Museum of Art}}</ref> the [[National Museum of American History]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Water Ski|url=https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_1414672|access-date=2020-12-22|website=Smithsonian Institution|language=en}}</ref> the [[University of Michigan Museum of Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Exchange{{!}}Search: artist:"Flip Schulke"|url=https://exchange.umma.umich.edu/quick_search/query?utf8=true&q=artist:%22Flip%20Schulke%22|access-date=2020-12-22|website=exchange.umma.umich.edu}}</ref> the [[Minneapolis Institute of Art]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=Coretta King, Martin Luther King Funeral, Atlanta, Georgia, Flip Schulke ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art|url=http://collections.artsmia.org/art/100596/coretta-king-martin-luther-king-funeral-atlanta-georgia-flip-schulke|access-date=2020-12-22|website=collections.artsmia.org}}</ref> and the [[Lehigh University|Lehigh University Art Galleries]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Artstor|title=Artstor|url=https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/28143055;prevRouteTS=1614881199353|access-date=2021-03-04|website=library.artstor.org|language=en}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}} {{commons category|Flip Schulke}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Schulke, Flip}} [[Category:20th-century American photographers]] [[Category:American photojournalists]] [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2008 deaths]] [[Category:Photographers from Minnesota]] [[Category:People from New Ulm, Minnesota]] [[Category:21st-century American photographers]] [[Category:Life (magazine) photojournalists]] [[Category:Journalists from Minnesota]] [[Category:Macalester College alumni]]