- Pulitzer Prize for Photography
The Pulitzer Prize for Photography was one of the
Pulitzer Prize s. It was awarded from 1942 until 1967. In 1968, it was split into two separate prizes: thePulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and thePulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (now called thePulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography ).*
1942 :Milton Brooks of "Detroit News ", for his photo "Ford Strikers Riot ."
*1943 :Frank Noel of theAssociated Press , for his photo "Water! "
*1944 :Earle L. Bunker of "World-Herald " (Omaha, Nebraska), for his photo "Homecoming."
*1944 :Frank Filan of theAssociated Press , for his photo "Tarawa Island."
*1945 :Joe Rosenthal of theAssociated Press , for his photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima ".
* "'1946 : no award.
*1947 :Arnold Hardy , amateur photographer, Atlanta, for his photo of a woman leaping from a fire in theWinecoff Hotel (she survived), distributed by theAssociated Press .
*1948 :Frank Cushing of "Boston Traveler ", for his photo "Boy Gunman and Hostage ."
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*1950 : Bill Crouch of "Oakland Tribune ", for his picture "Near Collision at Air Show ."
*1951 :Max Desfor of "Associated Press ", for his photographic coverage of theKorean War , an outstanding example of which is "Flight of Refugees across Wrecked Bridge in Korea ."
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*1953 :William M. Gallagher of the "Flint (Mich.) Journal" for "Ex-Governor Adlai E. Stevenson", a photo ofAdlai Stevenson with a hole in his shoe taken during the 1952 Presidential Campaign.
*1954 :Mrs. Walter M. Schau , an amateur from San Anselmo, California, for snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, California, the picture being published in "The Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal" and other newspapers and nationally distributed by theAssociated Press .
*1955 :John L. Gaunt, Jr. of the "Los Angeles Times " for a photo that is poignant and profoundly moving, "Tragedy by the Sea," showing a young couple standing together beside an angry sea in which only a few minutes earlier their year-old son had perished.
*1956 : Staff of the "New York Daily News " for its consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is its photo "Bomber Crashes in Street."
*1957 :Harry A. Trask of "Boston Traveler " for his dramatic and outstanding photographic sequence of the sinking of the linerSS Andrea Doria , the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet only nine minutes before the ship plunged to the bottom. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)
*1958 :William C. Beall of the "Washington Daily News " (Washington, D.C.) for his photograph "Faith and Confidence," showing a policeman patiently reasoning with a two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade.
*1959 :William Seaman of the "Minneapolis Star " for his dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.
*1960 :Andrew Lopez ofUnited Press International for his series of four photographs of a corporal, formerly of DictatorFulgencio Batista 's army, who was executed by aFidel Castro firing squad , the principal picture showing the condemned man receiving last rites.
*1961 :Yasushi Nagao of "Mainichi Shimbun " (Tokyo) for his photograph "Tokyo Stabbing," distributed byUnited Press International and widely printed in American newspapers.
*1962 :Paul Vathis of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, bureau of theAssociated Press , for the photograph "Serious Steps," published April 22, 1961.
*1963 :Hector Rondon of "La Republica" (Caracas, Venezuela), for his remarkable picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 Venezuelan insurrection: "Aid From The Padre." The photograph was distributed by theAssociated Press .
*1964 : Robert H. Jackson of the "Dallas Times-Herald ", for his photograph of "".
*1965 :Horst Faas of theAssociated Press , for his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.
*1966 :Kyoichi Sawada ofUnited Press International , for his combat photography of the war inVietnam War during 1965.
*1967 :Jack R. Thornell ofAssociated Press New Orleans bureau for his picture of the shooting ofJames Meredith in Mississippi by a roadside rifleman.External links
* [http://www.newseum.org/exhibits_th/exhibits/pulitzer_photos/index.aspx?item=pulitzer_index&style=c View the Pulitzer Prize for Photography Pictures]
* [http://www.traskphoto.com/ourfounderharrytrask/andreadoria.html The 1957 Pulitzer Prize Photo]
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