- He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 1973 for his photograph, "Moment of Life," about the birth of his daughter, Jacki Coburn in 1973.
- He was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. At 18 years old, he worked for the Phoenix Gazette for four years before getting a job as a staff photographer for the Topeka Capital Journal in Topeka, Kansas from 1970 to 1974. From 1974 until 1982, he went to the Register Guard newspaper.
- He is survived by his former wife, Lynda Coburn Lanker; their stepdaughter, Jacki Coburn (born in 1973) of Corvallis, Oregon; a stepdaughter Julie Coburn of San Francisco, California; and a son, Dustin Lanker of Portland, Oregon.
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