For any event of consequence to happen in Seattle over the past 120 years, a Post-Intelligencer photographer was there to bear witness. From the Great Fire of 1889 to the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Presidential visits, politics and protests. The tragedies of Hoovervilles, Japanese internment, the Oso mudslide.
At any event of consequence in Seattle over the past 155 years, a Post-Intelligencer photographer was there to bear witness .From the Great Fire of 1889 to the eruption of Mount St. Helens, presidential visits, politics and protests. The tragedies of Hoovervilles, Japanese internment, the Oso mudslide. National titles for every Seattle sports franchise, save one .We were there, camera in hand, capturing history.
Webber worked until the day before he died of emphysema complications, in his 50th year as a PI photographer.Here he is photographing President John F. Kennedy in 1963.Webber was hired by the PI at age 17 in 1955, after buying a police scanner and making his mom drive him to accident scenes so he could sell his photos to the local papers. At that time, employees were required to wear crisp white shirts and ties but his infamous sartorial eccentricities increased in accordance with his age.
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