Clyde W. Hare, Jr. worked as a professional free-lance photographer for over 50 years, until his retirement in 2006. He was born on July 11, 1927 in Bloomington, IN. After serving in the U. S. Navy on a sub-tender during W.W. II, he returned home to attend Indiana University, where he was a Marketing major and a member of Sigma Chi Fraternity. His interest in photography had begun in the Navy, so he also enrolled in the new Fine Arts Photography four-year program under Henry Holmes Smith and worked for the University newspaper and yearbook. He was also a member of the first University of Missouri Photojournalism Workshop during this time, and continued, either as a student or teacher, at the Workshop for the next 13 years. His personal life centered around his family, the arts, nature, and family lifetime sports and outdoor recreation activities. This led him to be active for over a decade with the Boy Scouts. He and his wife, Pat (nee Wycoff), were outdoor co-leaders for their sons' local B.S. Troop, and he was planner/organizer for two Guyasuta District Jamborees featuring outdoor adventure and the environmental sciences. Red was a loving and loyal husband for over 57 years, as well as a loving father to his three sons and their families: Paul and Susan of Ballston Lake NY, Tim and Diana of Wexford PA, and Jerry of Allison Park PA. He was very proud of all of them and of his five grandchildren, Jennifer, Brian, Corinne, Brandon, and Ryan. In 1950, Clyde joined the Pittsburgh Photographic Library Project, under the direction of Roy E. Stryker, 'The Father of Documentary Photography in America', where he helped to document Pittsburgh's First Renaissance. This historical collection is now housed at the Carnegie Library and in the Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1953, he began his career as a free-lance photographer for magazines, industry, foundations, advertising agencies, corporations, hospitals, and Performing Arts Groups. He chose Pittsburgh as his home, rather than following the traditional move to New York. His magazine work has included Life, Time, U.S.I.A., America Illustrated, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, The N.Y. Times, and major essays and cover stories for Fortune and National Geographic. In April 1955, Fortune Magazine gave him its first bleed photographic portfolio without text, a nine page color essay on the beauty of steelmaking, called "Steel: A Fresh Focus". His eight years of work on the Jones & Laughlin Steel photographic file, directed by Roy Stryker, is now in the permanent collection of the University of Louisville Ekstrom Library Photographic Archives. Collections of his work are also in many other permanent fine art and historical collections, including The George Eastman House, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, the Southern Alleghenies Museums of Art, and the W. PA John Heinz History Center. Later, in addition to his free-lance photography, he taught Visual Communications at Carnegie Mellon University from 1968-1981, and he continued to act as a guest lecturer for their Design History II classes until 2007. Because of his extensive work in documentary photography, he was a long-time advocate of archival preservation of Pittsburgh's photographic collections. Clyde wrote the Monograph, and helped produce the first Luke Swank Exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art Scaife Gallery in 1980. He lectured there in connection with their second Swank exhibit in 2000, their Gene Smith exhibit in 2002, and about 'Clyde Hare: Making Photographs for the Pittsburgh Photographic Library' in 2005 for their 'Witness to the Fifties' Exhibit. His photographs for many corporate and foundation publications, as well as magazines for three hospitals, have won major regional and national awards. His published books include: H.H. Richardson Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, Allegheny Cemetery: A Romantic Landscape in Pittsburgh (1991), and Clyde Hare's Pittsburgh: Four Decades of Pittsburgh Frozen in Light (1994). His photographs are also a large part of Industry and the Photographic Image 1850-1980 (edited by F. Jack Hurley for George Eastman House/Dover Publications), Witness to the Fifties - Pittsburgh Photographic Library 1950-1953 (1999), and many Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation books - TheThree Rivers, Sarah, Pittsburgh's Historical Churches, Landmark Architecture (I and II), Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (both 1985 and 1997 editions), Pittsburgh Bridges (1999), and Pittsburgh's Legends and Visions: An Illustrated History (2002). In 1958, The Carnegie Museum of Art gave Clyde a major One-Man Exhibition - only the fourth photographer to have a show there in its then 62-year history. Sam Hood, Art Critic for the Pittsburgh Press at the time, wrote in his review: "The 47 black and white photographs reveal Mr. Hare as a camera virtuoso in the varied fields of industrial, advertising, magazine, and 'photo essay', as well as pure art photography. In all categories, he produces art that isn't 'arty'. There have been many other one-man shows over the years; "A.C.T. Without Sound" at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, and later in New York City and San Francisco, several at the Allegheny Courthouse Gallery, the Indiana University School of Journalism, Penn State University, a five room Retrospective at The Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Center, Salt Lake Art Center, Dawes Arboretum, 'Forty Favorites: The Photography of Clyde Hare' at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Altoona, La Roche College Art Gallery, the Silver Eye Gallery, and a 'Fifty Year Retrospective' at the Concept Art Gallery in Pittsburgh in 2003. He has also been an invited artist in the U.S. State Department's "Steelmaking in America", "Reflections From the Third Day" at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at CMU, "Image of Industry" at the Kodak Galleries in New York City and at the George Eastman House Museum in Rochester, "Pictures of the Year" sponsored by Kodak and Nikon, "Faces of Childhood" at the Governor's Mansion in Harrisburg PA, "Pittsburgh Revealed" at the Carnegie Museum of Art, "Born of Fire: How Pittsburgh Built a Nation" at the Westmoreland Museum of Art in 2006, "The Golden Age of Photography 1925-1960" at the Concept Gallery (2006), and "The Looking Glass" at The Silver Eye Center for Photography in 2007. In 1985, he was one of Pittsburgh's 65 celebrities to be honored in the City's 'Livable One' celebration, and in 1996, he was chosen as one of the top visual artists in the area in the Jewish Community Center's "Master Visual Artists: Preserving the Legacy" awards. In 2005, acclaimed film producer, Kenneth Love, premiered a video film and DVD about his life and work, "The Majesty of Man", which has been shown at art theaters and on WQED/TV. Clyde was honored to receive the Westmoreland Museum of American Art's 2007 Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Artist - the first photographer, and one of only four artists in all, to receive this award in the 22 years of its existence. In addition to his immediate family, he is survived by his sister, Ludy Hemenway of Bellbrook, Ohio, a nephew, and two cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents Clyde W. Sr. & Mary Louise (Teter) Hare. Visitation will be Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 1-2pm followed by services at 2pm at Meyers Funeral Home, Batesville, IN. Burial will be in St. Mark Cemetery with military graveside rites. Memorial contributions may be made to the Silver Eye Center for Photography or the American Heart Association.