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Brian Lanker (August 31 1947 – March 13 2011) was an American photographer. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a black-and-white photo essay on childbirth for The Topeka Capital-Journal including the photograph Moment of Life. Lanker died at his home in Eugene Oregon on March 13 2011 after a brief bout of pancreatic cancer.