UNC library to receive famous Burk Uzzle photo collection

Posted Aug 8, 2019
From complex portraits of America’s most famous personalities to quirky compositions of life being lived to straightforward images of the country’s most vulnerable moments, Burk Uzzle has recorded humanity at its best and worst, in its brightest and darkest moments. At the end of a career that took him around the world, Uzzle, a Dunn native, settled in Wilson. (Associated Press)

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