.jpg) Rentmeester in front of his picture which becameWorld Press Photo of the Year 1967 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | Jacobus Willem Rentmeester (1936-02-28)28 February 1936 (age 89) Amsterdam, the Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation | Photojournalist | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
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Jacobus Willem Rentmeester (born 28 February 1936), nicknamed "Co" or "Ko", is a Dutchrower. He later became aphotojournalist and covered theVietnam War among other newsworthy events.
Rentmeester was born in 1936 inAmsterdam.[1] He competed withPeter Bakker indouble scull and won bronze at the1959 European Rowing Championships inMâcon, France.[2] Bakker and Rentmeester reached the finals indouble scull forthe Netherlands at the1960 Summer Olympics inRome where they came fifth.[3] In early 1961, Rentmeester moved to theUnited States and studiedphotography at the Art Center College inLos Angeles.
After receiving hisBachelor of Arts, Rentmeester initially started his career as a freelance photographer in 1965 for Life Magazine. A short time later, he joined the LIFE Staff from April 1966 thru 1972 when LIFE Magazine folded. He first covered theWatts Riots in Los Angeles, documenting many of the dramatic events, which earned him his first accolades as a photographer.
Between late 1965 and 1969 Rentmeester was inAsia, where he particularly covered the Vietnam war. One of his pictures showed an M48 tank gunner looking through a gunsight. It was selected asWorld Press Photo of the Year and notably it was the first color photograph to win the award. He was also in Hong Kong during the extensive civil disturbances in 1967.
After Rentmeester was wounded by aVietcong sniper near Saigon, he returned to the U.S. in 1972. His pictures from a trip throughIndonesia were shown in theVan Gogh Museum inAmsterdam, theSmithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and Asia House in New York.
In the following years, Rentmeester worked for numerous major publications as a photojournalist and as an advertising photographer.
Full name: Jakobus Willem Rentmeester
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