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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Hal Buell grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Northwestern University where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Medill School of Journalism. He went on to earn a Master's degree in journalism and, in 1956, after spending two years in the army as a Signal Corps photographer and staffer for Pacific Stars and Stripes, joined the The Associated Press. He was named Director of Photography in 1964 and Assistant General Manager for Newsphotos in 1968. He remained head of AP photoservices until 1990. He has won several awards for photo-editing, including the Sprague Award from the National Press Photographer's Association.
Seymour Topping is the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and a Professor of International Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He covered the Chinese civil war from 1946 to 1949 initially for the International News Service and later for The Associated Press. He served subsequently in Saigon, London, and Berlin before joining The New York Times. Topping was stationed in Moscow and Southeast Asia for the Times before becoming foreign editor and then managing editor.
Reviews (1)
Library Journal Review
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" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 6 |
| Introduction | p. 8 |
| The Large-Format Camera and the Early Pulitzers | p. 10 |
| The Small Camera and the Vietnam and Civil Rights Pulitzers | p. 54 |
| A New Kind of Pulitzer: the Picture Story | p. 84 |
| Color and Digital Photography, Women Photographers, and the Africa Pulitzers | p. 142 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 254 |
| Index | p. 255 |
