Steve Dozier is an American photographer, visual coach, collegiate educator, and editor. He has photographed many situations in many places in hismore than45-year career.He was fortunate to have spent about four years-from late 1979 to1983-exploring, photographing, assimilating into, and being nurtured on Miami Beach. There, he discovered amazing cultures, values, and perspectives.
Dozier is forever entranced in photographing, always with a particular humanistic approach. It is with photographs he is most fulfilled. Photographic adventures have more recently taken him to Nepal, India, China, and many other places. And often back to the current evolution of Miami Beach and Miami.
"Wherever I photograph,I seek to be imbedded as close as possible to people-to merge, experience, and visually record humanity-all the while respecting the deeply personal spaces of my fellow humans.” His large photographic portfolio includes Haitian and Cuban immigration, deadly riots,New York high fashion, presidential campaigns, and many smaller private moments. He was a staff photographer for the Miami Herald, St. Petersburg Times, and other newspapers including the Gainesville (FL) Sun, and Independent Florida Alligator. He has been published in Life, Newsweek,and other national magazines. Dozier was an editor for newspapers including The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press,Miami Herald, Dallas Times Herald, and Fort Worth Star Telegram.He has been an editor on five projects that won the Pulitzer Prize for various journalists, including the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. He majored in journalism and minored in fine art photography. His master’s degree from the University of Kentucky is in Information Sciences. Dozier was on the journalism faculty at the University of Kentucky, and later was Lecturer and Photojournalism Program Director at the University of Georgia. Students from both programs won top national collegiate photojournalism competitions. He has been active in historic preservation projects in his ancestral hometown of Stanford, the second oldest city in Kentucky. He is an inquisitive world traveler, avid sailor, and lives with his wife, Laura, a master’s prepared critical care nurse/educator, and their dogs Ruby, Royce and Maggie, near Ft. Myers, Florida. He has three grown daughters: Katie, Lee, and Lisa
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Modest cars line the Art Deco streets of Miami Beach in the early 1980s.
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Miami Beach residents are up early to get baked goods from a neighborhood bakery.
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Two young lovers embrace on a South Beach bench.
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Joe 'Big Daddy' Flanigan shows off his weight loss in front of his restaurant.
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Boxer works out at the iconic 5th Street Gym on Miami Beach.
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While waiting for a public bus, one woman devours a newspaper. Newspapers were a widely popular medium of the era.
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Ringling Brothers chimpanzee shares a moment with a circus goer on Miami Beach.
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The artist Christo unveils his plans to surround the Biscayne Bay spoil islands with brilliant pink fabric. Some say this was the beginning of "the arts in Miami."
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A Ringling Brothers circus worker takes a break as the circus comes to town.
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This picture represents converging ethnicities. A Mariel, Cuba street sweeper is hired to clean while people of various backgrounds lumber around.
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Resident couple strolling arm in arm past the Park Central Hotel.
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Business owner reduces coffee cup prices.
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Entrepreneur checks his storefront display during a closeout sale.
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Elderly man in his Miami Beach efficiency. Many fixed income elderly maintained efficiency apartments.
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An elderly man, all alone, copes with life without a loved one at a Miami Beach nursing home.
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The diminishing number of fixed-income residents, who often enjoyed sitting on the front porch of hotels, were largely replaced by immigrants for a period of time.
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Ringling Brothers elephant attendant shows his bond with the huge creature.
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Well-intended ministers opened an Alton Road storefront ministry, providing comfort to often alcoholic, weary, homeless people.
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Two young Haitian women inside the Metropole Hotel excited at the prospects of gaining employment in their new Miami Beach home.
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One of the first South Beach hotels to be renovated was the Governor, shown here with the owner's big Cadillac and prideful smile.
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Thousands of Haitians floated to the shores of Miami Beach to begin a new life. This is one boatload of people lined up for processing.
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Newly arrived Haitian and Mariel, Cuba immigrants replace the thinning elderly population enjoying front porch hotel seating.
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Widowed resident heads to her vintage refrigerator.
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1960s fitness guru, Jack LaLanne, appears to pull a throng of people-filled boats down the Miami Beach Intercoastal waterway.
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As Miami Beach took a temporary downward turn, many shops were vacated, and patrons sometimes walked with nearly empty bags enjoying their last resort.
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Patrons enjoy each other's company at a popular bar in South Beach.
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Throughout Miami Beach there were many nursing homes that housed elderly residents in their final years. It was a sometimes-shocking reality.
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Recent immigrant students flood the Miami Beach public schools, who seem successful in assimilating and educating new residents.
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The Metropole hotel transitioned from very fixed income elderly to a mainstay of immigrant accommodations, the first to home many from both Haiti and Mariel, Cuba.
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Popular middle school teacher in his Miami Beach Classroom.
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Migrant mother from Mariel, Cuba with her children in their temporary South Beach apartment.
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Nursing home residents project a forlorn life in a large Miami Beach nursing home.
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Several retiree residents have pleasant moments under the Victor Hotel pelican.
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Several Miami Beach delis delighted patrons with pickles.
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Cameras were installed in the early 1980s at multiple Miami Beach locations to monitor for safety.
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A vacationing rabbi relaxes poolside while reading book on management.
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All dressed up to go out, this shopper cruises the aisles in an early, huge Publix.
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Pumpernicks restaurant prepared many culinary delights for patrons over the years in Miami Beach.
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Vacationing rabbi smokes his cigar in South Beach.
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The iconic Rascal House and its patrons at night.
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Holocaust survivor, Sadie Rosenblum, in her Miami Beach condo art studio. She is well known for her painting depicting faceless Holocaust victims.
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Two elderly widows share a modest apartment on Miami Beach.
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When the first huge Publix opened on Miami Beach, shoppers and their children flocked to it for a then-new experience.
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Beachgoing tourists and elderly resident walking on South Beach sidewalks.
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The Sunny Isles section of Miami Beach was a popular destination for Canadian tourists who frolicked on our beaches. More recently, the unique humble hotels had been replaced by huge skyscrapers.
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While living in their last resort, many Jewish residents spent time in contemplation at local synagogues.
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Miami Beach patrolman steers one of the first 3-wheelers outside the Fontainebleau Hilton.
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A weather-beaten trolley moves residents around in Miami Beach.
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A weary Miami Beach man with headband pauses.
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Many delicatessens had rabbis to ensure what they served was Kosher and properly made.
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