Robert Symms
Robert Symms (1930 or 1931 – May 8, 2014) was an American photographer. He grew up in Augusta, Georgia and graduated from Richmond Academy in 1948. He then attended the Junior College of Augusta (later Augusta State University).
He won many awards down through the years and took many famous photographs, with one of his best-known that of Elvis Presley in an alley before a 1956 concert in Bell Auditorium in Augusta..[1]
He worked for the Augusta Chronicle and Augusta Herald from 1951 to 1961. He ran his own photography business with friend Morgan Fitz Symms photography from 1949. They had the contract for taking photographs for the Augusta Chronicle and Herald for 10 years.
Personal Life
Robert was born and reared in Augusta and had two sisters Carol, and Mary. Symms was married to wife Helen and he had eight children.