One of the nation’s premier photojournalists, Flip Schulke spent decades chronicling the triumphs and tragedies of American life. He was born in 1930 and began taking photographs as a high school student in New Ulm, Minnesota – where he acquired his distinctive nickname “Flip from an early interest in gymnastics. After graduating from Macalester College in St. Paul, he settled in Florida, where he had spent part of his childhood.
