Flip Schulke

I dreamt about Flip Schulke last night & knew I needed to Google him.He came into my orbit in the late sixties,Black Star,Chicago,office.His work was magnificent.A great man.Rest with the angels.

Twenty years ago I worked in a WPB bookstore,Brentano's, and I served Flip, newly moved into the area after Hurricane Andrew wrecked his home in the south. He was looking for a book about MLK and we got chatting because I collect MLK books. We'd talk whenever he came in and I enjoyed meeting Donna. As all the others have said, he was a most friendly and interesting person - not one to be forgotten. After I left Florida and the States we kept in touch for a while. I was very sorry when I...

Flip was a very close friend of our family. He found me at Space Camp in 1984 and kidnapped me for a week after to do shoots for the book "Your Future In Space" A book about the adventures at Space Camp. I think of him often but just heard of his passing and it hurts me soo. He was very close to my family and LOVED as such. Flip was a man like no other, he had a job he Loved but also an apperciation not only for the environment but for man kind. He was a man I respected at the age of 13 and...

In this hour of great sorrow we come together to celebrate the life and accomplishments of Flip Schulke who personified the word: artist. If GOD needs a photographer he's got one.

I'm sorry to hear Flip passed away.I never knew about his passing until I found it on google.He was a good friend and very good to help me on many u/w projects.I will keep him in my prayers.
Frank Pugliese

Flip's book "Underwater Photography For Everyone" was a great inspiration to my in my underwater interests. JPenland

Years ago, in Australia, Flip and I bumped into each other at the local Time-Life office. I remember well his generosity, and the way he inspired my curiosity about the civil rights movement in the U.S.A. Soon after, I found opportunities to visit several of the cities where Flip had made photographs. Perhaps on the basis of his initiatives I made sure that I would get to know some black Americans in those cities. Years later - again only by coincidence - I met another great of civil rights...

Flip and I and Maureen became friends when we worked on the University of Miami School of Medicine yearbook in 1956. Since then we went on to travel with him to photograph the Berlin Wall during its development returning to the same area and documenting the changes. We worked with him in his underwater photography when my daughter was featured in a report in New Week magazine. He photographed my wedding our childrens birth and he was going to photograph our 50 weeding anniversity renewel of...

I came to this guestbook when no one had yet posted and tried to compose an entry, but found I couldn't -- not because I had nothing to say, but because I had too much.

There was no one like Flip. He was larger than life. Along with Gary Truman and some other great people, I had the pleasure of being in Flip's photojournalism class at the University of Missouri in 1975. Flip became a close friend. We spoke often, most recently just a few weeks ago, and through the years occasionally...