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== Biography == |
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[[File:Shooting of Mayor Gaynor 1910.jpg|thumb|New York City mayor [[William Jay Gaynor]] being shot, 1910, photographed by Warnecke]] |
[[File:Shooting of Mayor Gaynor 1910.jpg|thumb|New York City mayor [[William Jay Gaynor]] being shot, 1910, photographed by Warnecke]] |
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Born {{Circa|1879|1881}},<ref>{{Cite web |title=William F. Warnecke {{!}} International Center of Photography |url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/william-f-warnecke |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=www.icp.org}}</ref> Warnecke had five siblings, including |
Born {{Circa|1879|1881}},<ref>{{Cite web |title=William F. Warnecke {{!}} International Center of Photography |url=https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/william-f-warnecke |access-date=2025-08-12 |website=www.icp.org}}</ref> Warnecke had five siblings, including photographer {{ | |=. He worked as a photographer for the [[New York World-Telegram|”New York World-Telegram”]], and during his {{Circa|40}}-year-long career, had photographed more than 20,000 celebrities. Of the celebrities he photographed, he believed actor [[Lillian Russell]] to be the “most beautiful” and soprano [[Mary Garden]] to be the “most elegant”. He also photographed the first submarine to dock at [[New York City]]. With photographer [[Wade Mountfortt Jr.]], he photographed New York City mayor [[William Jay Gaynor]] being shot in 1910. As Gaynor boarded [[SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse|SS ”Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse”]], Warnecke photographed him as Gaynor was being shot. He received a $100 bonus for the photograph, plus $25 more given by [[Joseph Pulitzer]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Faber |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DqwLVaPdDgoC&pg=PA22&dq=William+Warnecke&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA7ffAgoSPAxXLlYkEHX5iJbkQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=William%20Warnecke&f=false |title=Great News Photos and the Stories Behind Them |date=1978-01-01 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-23667-4 |pages=24 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Zelizer |first=Barbie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCasZeLFWecC&pg=PA33&dq=William+Warnecke&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjA7ffAgoSPAxXLlYkEHX5iJbkQ6AF6BAgHEAM#v=onepage&q=William%20Warnecke&f=false |title=About to Die: How News Images Move the Public |date=2010-12-01 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-977998-7 |pages=33 |language=en}}</ref> The photograph won the 1936 Press Photographers Award. Warnecke died on May 26, 1939, aged 60, while vacationing in [[Spring Valley, New York]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1939-05-27 |title=WILLIAM WARNECKE, NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER; Took Picture of Gaynor When Mayor Was Shot in 1910 (Published 1939) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/05/27/archives/william-warnecke-news-photographer-took-picture-of-gaynor-when.html |access-date=2025-08-12 |language=en}}</ref> |
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American photojournalist (c.1879–1939)
William F. Warnecke (c. 1879 – c. 1881 – May 26, 1939) was an American photojournalist.
Born c. 1879 – c. 1881,[1] Warnecke had five siblings.[citation needed] He was married with two children, including future photographer Harry Warnecke.[2] He worked as a photographer for the New York World-Telegram, and during his c. 40-year-long career, had photographed more than 20,000 celebrities. Of the celebrities he photographed, he believed actor Lillian Russell to be the “most beautiful” and soprano Mary Garden to be the “most elegant”. He also photographed the first submarine to dock at New York City. With photographer Wade Mountfortt Jr., he photographed New York City mayor William Jay Gaynor being shot in 1910. As Gaynor boarded SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, Warnecke photographed him as Gaynor was being shot. He received a $100 bonus for the photograph, plus $25 more given by Joseph Pulitzer.[3][4] The photograph won the 1936 Press Photographers Award. Warnecke died on May 26, 1939, aged 60, while vacationing in Spring Valley, New York.[5]
