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Big Shots.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-SEP-03 		Format: Online - approximately 1023 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Big Shots.(Peggie Spencer and John Mazziotta photographers Texas style)(Illustration)

Article Excerpt
SOMETHING CLICKED BETWEEN THEM. Peggie Spencer and John Mazziotta were both professional photographers when they met while working For the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in the late forties, and soon they were husband and wife too. They shared an shared an artistic eye, a strong work ethic, and a fondness for the adrenaline rush, characteristics that made their work regular front-age material for the Dallas Morning News in the fifties and the Dallas Times Herald in the sixties. Between them they captured the memorable faces of the region and the era--Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Tom Landry, Amon Carter, Lee Harvey Oswald. * True to the values of the day, John was often tapped to snap sporting Events (including most games of the Cowboys and the Texans, Dallas' two pro Football teams), while Peggie inevitably drew women's-page assignments. But both covered general news events as well. John, who died in 1989 at the...

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