Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs - Hardcover

Buell, Hal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579120784 ISBN 13: 9781579120788

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, 1999

Synopsis

This book offers readers a dramatic visual chronicle of our times.

These are unforgettable moments in history-five Marines raising the US flag in

Iwo Jima in 1945, Babe Ruth's final salute to Yankee stadium in 1949,

Lee Harvey Oswald wincing in pain as he is shot in 1964, President Ronald Reagan

being tackled into his limousine after the 1982 assassination attempt. Captured by

the lenses of top photographers, these 98 Pulitzer Prize winning photographs-combined with photo-timelines-paint a dramatic and memorable montage of each year, from World War II to the last days of the 20th Century.

Etched with emotion, fury and passion, each photograph transports the reader back in time to cry with the victims or cheer with the heroes. A detailed narrative along with the timeline that pictures and notes the most significant events of each year fills in the historical background, the photographer's thoughts, the events leading up to the captured moment as well as the aperture opening and shutter speed.

All photographs are rendered in duotone or full color, producing

clear and crisp images.

About this title

About the Author

Hal Buell is a veteran photo editor who worked on assignment in more than thirty-five countries, and headed the Associated Press Photo Service for twenty-five years, supervising an international staff of 300 photographers. He is the author of more than a dozen books on news photography, including Uncommon Valor, Common Virtue, the story of Iwo Jima flag raising. He lives in Douglaston, New York.

From the Back Cover

Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs collects every Pulitzer Prize photograph from 1942, when the photography award was founded, through 1999, into one remarkable and engrossing volume. By turns compelling, horrifying, touching, and heartrending, these extraordinary images are a moving and provocative testament to the power of the photograph.

From the Inside Flap

Pulitzer Prize. These words have come to represent excellence and the pinnacle of achievement in journalism. In 1942, the Pulitzer board, recognizing that photographs provide the lasting images that serve as benchmarks in our lives, began awarding Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism. Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs collects every photograph that has been honored with this award--from 1942 through 1999--into one remarkable and profoundly moving volume.

The Pulitzer Prize photographs have borne witness to courage, as evidence in Joe Rosenthal's moving image of American GIs raising the nation's flag on Iwo Jima; national shock, as in Bob Jackson's photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald; compassion, as seen in Nick Ut's moving image of a young Vietnamese girl, her body burned with napalm, fleeing her devastated village; and to an appeal to conscience, as in Kevin Carter's heartbreaking photograph of a starving Sudanese child being trailed by a vulture. The Pulitzer Prize photographs capture moments of joy, moments of terror, and moments of introspection. Particularly with regard to the images from World War II and Vietnam, these images have become icons of our shared consciousness.

Hal Buell, drawing on interviews with the photographers and his experience as The Associated Press's head of photoservices, provides an engrossing description of the story behind the photograph. In addition, four essays by Buell examine the developments in photographic technology and their effects on photojournalism. An illustrated time line throughout the book features historic and cultural events that occurred during the year each Pulitzer photograph was taken, providing additional context from which to view the pictures. A foreword by Seymour Topping, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and Professor of International Journalism, rounds out this engrossing compendium. A riveting collection of news photography, these incomparable images are testament to the power of the photograph to provoke, compel, and inspire.

Reviews

Chances are that a fair number of these honored pictures will be familiar to you, many of them viscerally so, from Joe Rosenthal's triumphant Iwo Jima flag-raising to Stanley Forman's brutal image of a busing-era flag attack on a black Boston lawyer; from Babe Ruth's farewell to Kevin Carter's grisly shot of a vulture eyeing a starving Sudanese baby. This book resembles Sheryle and John Leekley's 1978 collection of Pulitzer photographs, also called Moments. But the new one takes the story 20 years further and offers more technical and anecdotal background about how the pictures were achieved--with Speed Graphic or digital camera, by accident, or after a days-long stakeout. Buell, longtime head of the AP's photo services, presents all the prize's winners (1942-99), including follow-up about how the photographers felt after winning the award or whether they ever met their subjects again. The book might have been improved by interviewing the surviving subjects on how these images altered or haunted their lives. Because most of these images are already included in a variety of other sources, this is recommended for libraries that want the images all in one place.
-Nathan Ward, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1579120784
• ISBN 13: 9781579120788
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 255