Anacleto Rapping
Anacleto Rapping was an American photographer and pedagogue.
Education
Anacleto Rapping studied journalism at San Jose State University.Career
As a staff photographer at the Los Angeles Times for over two decades, Rapping covered presidential campaigns, Olympic Games, World Cup Soccer tournaments and the Academy Awards. He has also served as an instructor at Brooks Institute of Photography, where he stressed the importance of foreign travel. Rapping also helped launch three new feature sections at the Los Angeles Times—Sunday Calendar, Home, and Outdoors.Rapping previously worked for the Hartford Courant in Connecticut and the Thousand Oaks News Chronicle in California. He has taken assignments in South Africa, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Singapore, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada and throughout the United States. He has photographed four summer Olympic Games, one winter Olympics and three World Cup Soccer tournaments.