Winfield S. Frazeur IV

Who is Winfield S. Frazeur IV?

Winfield S. Frazeur IV, born May 10, 1941 is an American photographer. While working in the U.S. Navy, Winfield was assigned to take official photographs for the military and U.S. Government.

As a military photographer Winfield's most notable photographic events include photographing American presidents, John F. Kennedy aboard the US Kittyhawk in 1963 for which he received a letter of appreciation signed by the President; and George W. Bush, in which Winfield had a 2-hour photo shoot during his re-election campaign. Very few photographers get the chance to photograph U.S. presidents due to strict Secret Service protection [United States Secret Service]. In 1962, when the U.S. was entangled with the Russians and Cuba in a Cold War crisis, Winfield was aboard a military vessel and photographed the first pictures and important proof of Russian ships carrying missiles bound for Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis coming from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean Sea, passing through the Strait of Gibraltar and into the North Atlantic Ocean.

Winfield attended the [Seville Expo '92] in Spain, which was organized to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. During the event, Winfield was the only photographer photographing the exact replicas of Columbus' ships Niña, the Santa Maria, and Pinta prior to setting sail on the same route Columbus embarked on 500 years earlier.