Pulitzer:
Pulitzer
Prizes for Photography:
Between
1942 and 1967 a Pulitzer Prize for Photography was awarded for photojournalism,
that is, for photographs telling a news story. In 1968 that award was replaced
by awards in two new categories:
the
Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (photography in the nature of breaking
news, as it has been called since 2000); and
the
Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography (human interest and matters associated
with new items).
World
Press Photo of the Year:
From
1955 World Press Photo has awarded prizes for the best photographs in 10
categories, with an overall award for the image that "... is not only the
photojournalistic encapsulation of the year, but represents an issue, situation
or event of great journalistic importance, and does so in a way that
demonstrates an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity".
The
photographs are interesting not only in their own right but for being windows
on history.
Award:
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Pulitzer
Feature (Human Interest) Photograph
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Year:
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1991
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Photographer:
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William Snyder,
Dallas Morning News
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Photograph(s):
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Photographs of ill
and orphaned children living in subhuman conditions in Romania.
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The Photographs:
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One
of Snyder’s Pulitzer-Prize winning photographs of Mimi Rizescu attempting to
console a child, while feeding another one, in the Home for Irrecoverables in
Vulturesti, Romania.
The Photographer:
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- William
Snyder is an American photojournalist and former Director of Photography for
The Dallas Morning News.
- Snyder
won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1989 along with reporter
David Hanners and artist Karen Blessen for their special report on a 1985
airplane crash, the follow-up investigation, and the implications for air
safety.
- In
1991, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography as above and below.
- In
1993, Snyder and Ken Geiger won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
for their photographic coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona,
Spain.
- As
Photo Director he oversaw the Morning News photo staff's 2006 Pulitzer-winning
coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
- In
the Spring of 2008, Snyder took the buyout at The Dallas Morning News and
returned to his alma mater, the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he is
now the chair in the Photojournalism BFA program.
Comments:
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Previous posts in this continuing series have looked at the role of
the news photographer and photojournalist separate feelings and involvement
from the subjects they are photographing, whether that is possible and whether
it takes a toll. William Snyder’s 1991
Pulitzer winning photographs also fall into that issue.
From “Picture Coverage of the World: Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos”
by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer:
“It was horrible, absolutely horrible. I was a human being, someone you could touch and see. The kids were all over me. I had a son about two years old. I just kept projecting him in that situation, it was vert difficult. A lot of the workers didn’t care about the children, they did the bare minimum. They swaddled the children so that they wouldn’t roll around and create problems – therefore restricting motor growth and coordination. I had always been a run-and-gun photographer. Going to Romania changed everything for me. This wasn’t about pictures, this was about people, defenseless, helpless people. It was no longer just pictures to be taken, it was about stories to be told.”
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World Press Photo of
the Year 1991:
Okay, right from the
outset, I admit I screwed up. Twice.
The 1991 World Press
Photograph of the Year was by Georges Merillon and was entitled “Kosovo
Conflict.” It shows the family of Nashim
Elshani grieving around his deathbed after he was killed while protesting for
Kosovar autonomy.
I incorrectly attributed
this photograph to 1990 and wrote about it at:
My second error was to
attribute the correct 1990 World Press Photograph of the Year, “Tank Man” by
Charlie Cole, to 1989. That iconic photograph is:
and
Mea culpa.
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