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James Barnas aka James Roark was a Pulitzer Prize nominated photographer and photo editor for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.Born James Barnas (1945) in the late 1960s he and his brother Robert took the surnames of the main characters (Roark and John Galt) from the Ayn Rand novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.In 1970 Roark shot the photographs for a book titled Rock Beyond Woodstock authored by Michael Ross.Roark was nominated for the Pulitzer prize in 1976 for his photograph of Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday saving an American flag from being burned by two protesters.