Bill Snead at home with three of his nearly 100 photos that wll be on exhibit October 20-November 30 at the Lawrence Arts Center. The reception for Bill Snead Photographs: The First Fifty Years will begin October 20 at 7 p.m.

Photo by Thad Allender

Young Albanian Field Hands -- After driving through the agricultural areas of Albania, it became obvious that the majority of the field workers, manning the hoes and shovels were young women sometimes joined by a few older men. The supervisors were males usually watching their efforts on horseback. Their work did not interfere with their sense of humor.

Photo by Bill Snead

Albanian Girl-A young girl stares through a clouded bus window during a thunderstorm in Tirana, Albania. The photo was taken in 1991 when the first western foreigners were allowed in the country since World War II.

Photo by Bill Snead

Albanian Confessional-On Easter Sunday, 1991, a woman kneels at an outdoor confessional, talking to a Catholic priest. It preceded one of the first church services held in Albania since World War II. Albania's Communist leaders declared believing in God against the law. Many people who professed a belief in God or possessed religions statues were put in prison and suffered horribly under the hands of their guards.

Photo by Bill Snead

Anita Hill Testifies-In 1991, Anita Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, testified before the senate judiciary committee during nomination hearings for Clarence Thomas. Hill accused Thomas of sexual harassment when she worked for the U.S. Supreme Court nominee.

Photo by Bill Snead

Ballerina-A dancer with the Washington Ballet Company listens to her mentor's instructions in a darkened theater.

Photo by Bill Snead

The Beatles at their 1964 press converence in Philadelphia in the basement of Constitution Hall. Paul McCartney with mind adrift.

Photo by Bill Snead

The Beatles at their 1964 press converence in Philadelphia in the basement of Constitution Hall. Just messing around.

Photo by Bill Snead

The Beatles at their 1964 press converence in Philadelphia in the basement of Constitution Hall. Some relatives of city officials were chosen to meet the visitors from England.

Photo by Bill Snead

The 1964 press conference in Philadelphia looked more the interior of a police station than the basement of Constitution Hall. They were surrounded by Philadelphia city officials and policemen. The performed later that evening at Constitution Hall in 1964. Top ticket prices were $5.50 and the upper balcony seats sold for $2.50.

Photo by Bill Snead

The Beatles at their 1964 press converence in Philadelphia in the basement of Constitution Hall. Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo.

Photo by Bill Snead

Chesapeake Bridge Painters-Painters are tethered to one of the twin spans that cross the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Maryland. Weather permitting; painting the bridges is a year-round project.

Photo by Bill Snead

Albanian Girl-A young girl stares through a clouded bus window during a thunderstorm in Tirana, Albania. The photo was taken in 1991 when the first western foreigners were allowed in the country since World War II.

Photo by Bill Snead

In 1989, these two coal miners, photographed deep in a mine, refused to join other members of the United Mine Workers when they walked out on strike against the Pittston Coal Coompany in Carbo, Va.

Photo by Bill Snead

Photo by Bill Snead

A Couple of Cowpokes-An indoor rodeo in Herndon, Virginia's Frying Pan Park drew cowboy spectators of all sizes.

Photo by Bill Snead

D.C. Street Scene-A Washington, D.C. detective questions a handcuffed robbery suspect that he and his partner, right, had just apprehended on Pennsylvania Avenue about 4 blocks from the U.S. Capitol Building. During the chase, a cocked and loaded .45 caliber pistol fell from the suspect's belt.

Photo by Bill Snead

Forrest Lusk is an Elvis impersonator. For his day job he runs the Downtown Restaurant in Elkhart, Kansas. At about sunset, one very warm afternoon, Forrest took his mirror and moved outside to practice his Elvis moves.

Photo by Bill Snead

Find The Naked Photographer-In 1969 the first "Miss Nude America" contest was held in Naked City, a nudist camp in Indiana. The event drew national coverage. When this group of professionals focused on the main event they were oblivious to their competition and her Kodak Instamatic.

Photo by Bill Snead

Utica, Kansas High School Class of '93--These girls standing in a Western Kansas wheat field, Hanneke Hollander, left and Stephanie Walker are the senior class of Utica High School. Stephanie was raised on a farm near Utica and her classmate is an exchange student from Holland. Stephanie's parents didn't want her to be the only senior in school. In 1993 the Utica High chorus was a trio.

Photo by Bill Snead

"In Cold Blood" Killers-In 1963 Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, right, headed for their last hearing to appeal for their lives in federal court in Topeka, Kansas. This was the last picture taken of the two who earlier were convicted of murdering Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and their two children in their Holcolm, Kansas home. The two were hanged in 1965. Truman Capote wrote a best selling novel about Smith and Hickock, "In Cold Blood."

Photo by Bill Snead

Rain Clouds in Western Kansas-Dark rain clouds looked menacing above three combines that were racing the weather while harvesting a section of wheat near Goodland, Kansas in 1987.

Photo by Bill Snead

Paddling With The Tide-A kayak makes its way through the rapids on the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.

Photo by Bill Snead

John F. Kennedy stopped in Kansas City in 1960 to campaign for president. He was surrounded by mostly female fans when he stopped at Truman Corners Shopping Center in Grandview, Mo.

Photo by Bill Snead

KKKK-Members of the Knights of the Klu Klux Klan filed past a small burning cross and an American Flag as they sang "Onward Christian Soldiers" at a Rally in rural Maryland in 1986.

Photo by Bill Snead

Mountaintop Crossing-A Kurd with his tent and supplies on his back heads back over the mountain towards Iraq while a young mother carrying her child walks towards the refugee camp. Many found the unsanitary conditions to be so bad in the camp that they turned back, ready to take their chances in Iraq.

Photo by Bill Snead

Survival of the Fittest-Convoys of trucks loaded with food, pots, and pans ? anything that would hold water ?Ã would be empty before reaching older refugees camped on the mountains. Younger refugees would jump in the trucks only halfway to their destination and come away with armloads of utensils and bags of food.Ã Many were Iraqi military deserters.

Photo by Bill Snead

Mourners and family members carry a casket through the desert outside El Saucity, Mexico, on their way to the cemetery. They are carrying one of the four men from their village who died when they were accidently sealed in a box car.

Photo by Bill Snead

Heartbroken and Helpless--A Kurdish mother holding her sick child wipes away a tear while waiting quietly in a line outside the tent of the lone Kurdish physician in the Isikveren refugee camp. Her young son died before she was able to see the doctor.

Photo by Bill Snead

Mother Teresa -Barely five feet tall, the religious icon, and Nobel Peace Prize winner stood on a box while addressing a prayer breakfast in a Washington, D.C. hotel ballroom. The event was packed with members of Congress and admirers of the saintly nun who had done so much work in Calcutta. She died at 87 in 1997.

Photo by Bill Snead

A Mother's Grief-A young Kurdish mother is consoled by a friend as she holds her newborn child that had just died. Many Kurdish refugees trying to survive in the wet and cold mountains died daily.

Photo by Bill Snead

Napalm Wounds-A young boy stands outside his family's makeshift tent in the Isikveren refugee camp. His face has been disfigured from a napalm attack dropped on his village by Iraqi Air Force planes. There were no medical supplies available to treat his wounds.

Photo by Bill Snead

Nuns work in their onion and herb garden outside the Sucevita Monastery in Northern Romania. It was built in 1583.

Photo by Bill Snead

Photo by Bill Snead

Fashionable Beauty-One of those rare moments when everything works for 1/15th of a second. We're shooting fashion in New York, running out of light, moving to the skyscraper's roof, catching the last bit of illumination on the very last frame at the end of a long day's shooting. In 1978 this shot of model Beverly Lee was chosen the year's best fashion shot in Pictures of the Year Competition.

Photo by Bill Snead

Brooks Robinson leaps in the air as he runs towards Baltimore Oriole winning pitcher Dave McNally after they beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Baltimore 1-0, sweeping the four game series.

Photo by Bill Snead

Trapped in the Mountains-Tents and makeshift shelters dot the windswept Zagros Mountains on the border between Iraq and Turkey near Syria. About 400,000 Kurds, driven from their homes in Iraq by Saddam Hussein's military took refuge in the mountains when the Turks refused to let them off the rocky border to enter Turkey. Overall nearly a million Kurds were driven from their homes and it was estimated that nearly 1,000 of them died daily before medical help and food arrived.

Photo by Bill Snead

Outdoor Prayers-A woman prays with her Rosary in her hands in an outdoor Catholic Church service near Shkoder, Albania. Many devout Albanians spent years in prisons for not denouncing their faith in a higher power than the ruling Communist party.

Photo by Bill Snead

Dewey Chafin holds a couple of handfuls of rattle snakes at the Church of the Lord Jesus, in Jolo, W.Va. Dewey has been "bit" more than a hundred times by poisonous snakes but never treated with medicine, only prayer.

Photo by Bill Snead

The Beatles at their 1964 press converence in Philadelphia in the basement of Constitution Hall. Ringo.

Photo by Bill Snead

Photo by Bill Snead

Saigon Street Scene-An old French Citron automobile parked at the curb on Saigon's Tu do Street is joined by dozens of parked bicycles and a passing pedicab in the evening's purple twilight. 1965.

Photo by Bill Snead

Stranded on a Mountaintop-Many of the Kurds who were driven from their homes in Iraq by Saddam Hussein's military forces were stranded on the Zagros Mountains that line the border between Iraq and Turkey.Ã Some, like this small group of refugees, stayed near the mountaintops to escape the unsanitary conditions in the large refugee camp halfway down the mountain.

Photo by Bill Snead

Sofia Loren and Motion Picture Czar Jack Valenti in a reception room prior to the annual Italian-American dinner in Washington, D.C.

Photo by Bill Snead

Discovery Blasts Off-The space shuttle Discovery leaves a trail of smoke and fire as it lifts off a Capt Canaveral launching pad in 1988. This was the first launch of a space shuttle following the Challenger disaster two years earlier.

Photo by Bill Snead

Stan Musial's Last Game-September 29, 1963: Stan Musial, the legendary St. Louis Cardinal slugger, answered questions from the press in the Cardinal dressing room in old Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. He got two hits in his last game and was loudly cheered by a near capacity crowd of 27,576.

Photo by Bill Snead

Welcome to Dien Bien Phu--In 2000 I was walking alone on the outskirts of Dien Bien Phu, close to the borders of China and Laos, when this character, leading a goat on a rope, tugged on my arm motioning for me to follow him to his small home. Dang Xuan Kieu, 77, it turns out, left the North Vietnamese Army as a captain in 1988 and had fought with the Viet Minh when they defeated the French in the battle for Dien Bien Phu. He was wounded several times in his 35 years of battle. He showed me an old headshot taken of him in his uniform, pulled the hat and jacket from a closet and motioned for me to take a new one. Here it is. I hope he got the copy I sent him.

Photo by Bill Snead

Holy Smoke-A fireman battling a Catholic Church blaze in Wilmington, Delaware calls headquarters for more additional fire fighters.

Photo by Bill Snead