Visit our new community guide site. DIGITAL PRESS Latest news Classified Ads Search FEEDBACK SP Magazine ADVERTISING OTHER SITES DIGIGUIDE CAMPUS SPARK BULLDOG HFR FEATURES ABOUT US HOME PAGE Click here! You can advertise in this space. Classified Advertising On-Line!   An historic viewfinder  By Aislinn Fahy State Press His name isn't well known, but Morris Berman's images are. There's the bloodied, dejected Y.A. Tittle on his knees after the New York Giants lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1964 and the quarterback ended his 18-year career in the National Football League. There's a dead Benito Mussolini, Italy's fascist leader during World War II, and his mistress, their bodies lying in the dirt with their arms intertwined and undertaker's tags around their necks. There are countless pictures of sports legends such as Roberto Clemente, Arnold Palmer and Willie Mays. And people like Bing Crosby. And John F. Kennedy. And Richard Nixon. And on and on. Behind the lens, looking at all of them, is Berman, who is now 89 years old and living in Sun City, west of Phoenix.  His friends know him as "Morry," and they also know that he has not "retired" to Sun City. He still gives out his business card, which reads, "Morris Berman, photo specialist." Berman is as busy as ever. He labels himself "just a photographer." But if Berman is just a photographer, then Michael Jordan is just a basketball player. For more than 60 years Berman has given the world something to look at, smile about and cry over. His pictures have illustrated triumphs, tragedies and everything in between. "I've been very fortunate in my career and I have some wonderful memories," Berman said, looking up at the photograph-littered walls in his living room. "But I've never been one to rest on my past credentials. It is not what I have done that is important but what I am doing." Berman, who has photographed the likes of Pope Pius XII, Gen. Mark Clark and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, hasn't slowed his pace since he left the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and moved to Sun City in 1979. "Sometimes I think it would be nice to take it a little easier, but then I remember everything I need to get done," he said, joking that he is busier now than he was during his heyday in Pittsburgh.  More on the Morris Berman's life & art His bachelor years It's hard to say no World War II His education The New York Giants From Hoover to Clinton http://news.vpsa.asu.edu Contact Web staff 1997 PHOTO ISSUE PUBLICATIONS ALUMNI DIGIGUIDE ADVERTISING INFO REQUEST MEDIA KIT MEET OUR AD STAFF Home | Search |DigiGuide | Alumni | Advertising | Archives | Feedback | About Us Our Other Sites: Journalist's Directory | SPM | HFR | Bulldog | Features (c)1998 Student Publications, Arizona State University Banner Ads Available Target your audience through placing an ad on a subject page of the ASU DigiGuide or Digital State Press. Main State Press Page Sports Highlights Features Journalist's Directory SPM Magazine DigiGuide