- Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
The
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography was awarded from 1968 – 1999, thereafter being renamed as thePulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography .*
1968 :Rocco Morabito , "Jacksonville Journal ", for his photograph of telephone linemen, "The Kiss of Life".
*1969 : Edward T. Adams, "Associated Press ", for his photograph,"Saigon Execution".
*1970 :Steve Starr , "Associated Press ", for his news photo taken atCornell University , "Campus Guns".
*1971 : John Paul Filo, "Valley Daily News and Daily Dispatch ", Tarentum and New Kensington,Pennsylvania , for his pictorial coverage of the Kent State University tragedy onMay 4 ,1970 .
*1972 :Horst Faas andMichel Laurent ,Associated Press , for their picture series, "Death in Dacca".
*1973 :Huynh Cong Ut ,Associated Press , for his photograph, "The Terror of War," depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing.
*1974 :Anthony K. Roberts , a freelance photographer ofBeverly Hills, California , for his picture series, "Fatal Hollywood Drama," in which an allegedkidnapper was killed.
*1975 :Gerald H. Gay , "Seattle Times ", for his photograph of four exhaustedfirefighters , "Lull in the Battle".
*1976 :Stanley Forman , "Boston Herald-American", for his sequence of photographs of a fire inBoston onJuly 22 ,1975 .
*1977 :Stanley Forman , "Boston Herald-American", for his photograph "The Soiling of Old Glory ", which depictsJoseph Rakes attackingTheodore Landsmark — using anAmerican flag as a lance — during adesegregation busing demonstration atBoston City Hall .
*1977 :Neal Ulevich , of theAssociated Press , for a series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets ofBangkok .
*1978 :John H. Blair , a special assignment photographer forUnited Press International , for a photograph of anIndianapolis broker being held hostage at gunpoint.
*1979 :Thomas J. Kelly III , "Pottstown Mercury ", Pennsylvania, for a series called "Tragedy on Sanatoga Road."
*1980 : An unnamed photographer,United Press International , for "Firing Squad in Iran. " In2006 , The photographer's identity was revealed to beJahangir Razmi . [Joshua Prager,December 2 ,2006 . " [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116499510215538266.html?mod=home_we_banner_left A Photograph's Hidden History] ", Wall Street Journal, Weekend Edition, New York]
*1981 :Larry C. Price , "Fort Worth Star-Telegram ", for his photographs fromLiberia .
*1982 :Ron Edmonds ,Associated Press , for his coverage of theReagan assassination attempt .
*1983 :Bill Foley ,Associated Press , for his series of pictures of victims and survivors of the massacre in the Sabra Camp inBeirut .
*1984 :Stan Grossfeld , "Boston Globe ", for his series of photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people ofLebanon .
*1985 : Photography staff, "Register ",Santa Ana, California , for their coverage of theOlympic games .
*1986 :Carol Guzy andMichel duCille , "Miami Herald ", for their photographs of the devastation caused by the eruption of theNevado del Ruiz volcano inColombia .
*1987 :Kim Komenich , "San Francisco Examiner ", for his photographic coverage of the fall ofFerdinand Marcos .
*1988 :Scott Shaw , "Odessa American ", for his photograph of the childJessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen.
*1989 :Ron Olshwanger , afreelance photographer, for a picture published in the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch " of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.
*1990 : Photo Staff of "Oakland Tribune ",California , for their photographs of devastation caused by theLoma Prieta Earthquake ofOctober 17 ,1989 . Oakland Tribune team consisted of Tom Duncan, Angela Pancrazio, Pat Greenhouse, Reginald Pearman, Matthew Lee, Gary Reyes, Michael Macor, Ron Riesterer, Paul Miller, Roy H. Williams.
*1991 :Greg Marinovich ,Associated Press , for a series of photographs of supporters ofSouth Africa 'sAfrican National Congress murdering a man they believed to be aZulu spy .
*1992 : Staff,Associated Press , for photographs of the attempted coup inRussia and the subsequent collapse of theCommunist regime.
*1993 :Ken Geiger andWilliam Sneider , "Dallas Morning News ", for their photographs of the1992 Summer Olympics inBarcelona .
*1994 : Paul Watson, "Toronto Star ", for his photograph, published in many American newspapers, of a U.S. soldier's body being dragged through the streets ofMogadishu by a mob of jeeringSomalis .
*1995 :Carol Guzy , "Washington Post ", for her series of photographs illustrating the crisis inHaiti and its aftermath.
*1996 :Charles Porter IV , a freelancer, for his photographs taken after theOklahoma City bombing and distributed by theAssociated Press , showing a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a fireman.
*1997 :Annie Wells , "Press Democrat ",Santa Rosa, California , for her photograph of a firefighter rescuing a teenager from raging floodwaters.
*1998 :Martha Rial , "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ", for her portraits of survivors of the conflicts in Rwanda and Burundi.
*1999 : Staff,Associated Press , for its portfolio of images following the embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania.External links
* [http://www.worldpressphoto.org/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=15&Itemid=115&bandwidth=high Gallery: World Press Photo Of The Year since 1955] .
* [http://www.pulitzer.org/index.html Pulitzer Prize winners for Spot News Photography] .References
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