So we’re a day late. Sue us.

This picture is of a young Bob Knight, but also (as you see in the caption) Larry Crewell, a photographer for the then-Bloomington Herald-Telephone (now the Herald-Times). Crewell died in May 2007 at the age of 70, but in the three decades he worked in Bloomington (many as the paper’s chief photographer) he became the photography face of the paper.

Crewell was the primary IU basketball photographer, working with writer Bob Hammel, who IU fans recognize as one of the few writers that had Bob Knight’s ear. As the story goes, Knight would be friendly and sometimes talk with Crewell, a rarity with the media throughout Bob’s career.

Crewell worked on an IU book with Hammel after the 1981 championship, and shot pictures up to 1992, including the 1987 national title season. But his greatest moment? Perhaps as an extra in the movie “Hoosiers”, where he played, you guessed it, a 1950’s photographer. Apparently he was on set one day shooting pictures of Barbara Hershey (the lead actress in the film), when someone on set, using a Speed Graphic camera, asked if anyone knew how to use it.

Of course, Crewell used it every day, and from there, well, the story writes itself.

The National Press Photographer’s Association writes a good recap of Crewell’s life here.