2. 1968: Toshio Sakai, United Press International,
"for his Vietnam War combat photograph, 'Dreams of Better Times.'“
Photo depicts a scene from a camp of U.S troops in South-Vietnam. The
soldier in the foreground slept on a pile sand bags while his comrade in the
background was watching guard. The two troops were of the First Away
Division and rested after heavy sniper and mortar fire. They were wearing
Ponchos to stay dry even though the Moonson was pouring ceaselessly.
The poncho was versatile: it also kept away the red ants. Another
advantage was that an injured soldier in a poncho was easy to pull away
from the action. The two troops were taking this rest at the Landing Zone
Rufe about 36 miles northeast of Phuc Vinh. The Moonson was just one of
the obstacles to The American troops which they were not used to and
which was therefore difficult to handle. With reference to the photograph’s
message, the sleeping G.I was perhaps dreaming of a time without rain and
without war.
Feature Photography 1968
3.
4. 1969: Moneta Sleet Jr. of Ebony magazine,
"for his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow and child, taken at Dr. King's
funeral.“
It has been just five days since a snipers bullet killed the civil rights leader. Coretta
Scott King has discovered that the pool of journalists covering her husband’s
funeral does not include a black photographer. She sends word: If Moneta Sleet is
not allowed into the church, there will be no photographers.
Feature Photography 1969
5.
6. 1970: Dallas Kinney, Palm Beach Post (Florida),
"for his portfolio of pictures of Florida migrant workers, 'Migration to Misery.'“
In 1969, photojournalist Dallas Kinney began a two and a half month migration
to visually document the men, women and children of migrant farm workers in
the US. Kinney was awarded the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism, and
the first annual “Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award.
This was the first Pulitzer award for a series of photographs.
Feature Photography 1970
7.
8. 1972: David Hume Kennerly, United Press International,
"for his dramatic photographs of the Vietnam War in 1971.“
Feature Photography 1972
9.
10. 1973: Brian Lanker, Topeka Capital-Journal, "for his sequence on child birth,
as exemplified by his photograph, 'Moment of Life.'“
Feature Photography – 1973
Brian Lanker was a young, single photographer at the Topeka Capital-Journal,
intrigued by the Lamaze method of childbirth. It took him six months to find a
Kansas couple willing to be photographed.
Jan. 27, 1972: Lanker was in the delivery room with parents-to-be Lynda and
Jerry Coburn. “During early labor,” he said, “it was obvious to them that I was
there. Later on, you have a bunch of doctors and nurses and I was able to blend
in.” But the photographer was “so caught up with the moment and the emotion,”
he needed a kind of “sixth sense” to stay focused. “Fortunately, your
professionalism and artistry take over and allow you to do the work.”
Tiny Jacki Lynn Coburn arrived, and Lanker captured “the incredible moment” — a
baby’s first breaths, a father’s look, a mother’s smile.
11.
12. 1974: Slava Veder, Associated Press, "for his picture Burst of Joy, which
illustrated the return of an American prisoner of war from captivity in North
Vietnam.“
Feature Photography 1974
One of those POWs is Col. Robert L Stirm of the U.S. Air Force. Stirm was shot
down over Hanoi and badly wounded, his family had waited almost six years
not knowing whether they would see him again. A giant C-141 taxis toward the
crowd. The men disembark, alert and solemn in new dress uniforms. Stirm is
the last man off. Briefly, he addresses the crowd, “Thank you for this
enthusiastic reception God bless you and God bless America”.
As Stirm finishes speaking, Veder notices: “There was motion. The family had
started to run toward him, and that’s what caught my eye.” Veder raises his
camera, Stirm sees his children running toward him, Veder clicks the shutter: a
burst of joy, captured in one frame. Stirm’s son remembers: “It was just this
overwhelming feeling, he finally made it back”.
13.
14. 1977: Robin Hood, Chattanooga News-Free Press, "for his photograph of a
disabled veteran and his child at an Armed Forces Day parade.“
Feature Photography 1977
By spring 1976 the Vietnam War is over, but the effects are deeply embedded in
the lives of millions. Robin Hood went over as an Army information officer but
came back as a photographer. Eddie Robinson served in Vietnam, too, but the
war took something away from him: his legs.
The two veterans cross paths at the Armed Forces Day Parade in Chattanooga,
Tenn., on May 15, 1976. Hood is walking along the sidelines, taking pictures for
the Chattanooga News-Free Press. “I had just finished photographing a group of
small Vietnamese children who had been relocated to Chattanooga as war
refugees and were now watching the parade and waving small American flags.”
Then Hood sees Robinson, in army fatigues, a rain poncho — and a wheelchair.
“The thought occurred to me that here was a man who had made a supreme
sacrifice for the freedom of those (Vietnamese) children-” Hood releases the
shutter. Robinson wistfully watches the parade and protects a child from the rain.
15.
16. 1978: J. Ross Baughman, Associated Press, "for three photographs from
guerrilla areas in Rhodesia.“
Feature Photography 1978
Ross Baughman wears a military uniform and carries a rifle. He rides the
Rhodesian back country on horseback. But he is not a soldier. He is a
photographer for The Associated Press.
It is 1977. The white Rhodesian government is under intense pressure from the
country’s disenfranchised black majority. Baughman travels with a rugged
cavalry unit. Grey’s Scouts. Their mission: to seek out anti-government guerrillas
and destroy them.
The villagers will not give up the guerrillas. So the scouts resort to torture. “They
force them to line up in push-up stance,” Baughman remembers. “They’re
holding that position for 45 minutes in the sun. many of them starting to shake
violently.”
The soldiers warn that the first man who falls will be taken away. “Eventually, the
first guy fell. They took him around the back of the building, knocked him out and
fired a shot into the air. They continued bringing men to the back of the building.
The poor guy on the end started crying and going crazy and he finally broke and
started talking. As it turns out. what he was saying wasn’t true, but the scouts
were willing to use it as a lead.”
Remembers Baughman: “It had all the feeling of an eventual massacre. I was
afraid that I might see entire villages murdered.”
17.
18. 1981: Taro Yamasaki, Detroit Free Press,
"for his photographs of Jackson State
Prison, Michigan.“
Feature Photography 1981
19.
20. 1983: James B. Dickman, Dallas Times
Herald, "for his telling photographs of life
and death in El Salvador.“
Feature Photography 1983
21.
22. 1984: Anthony Suau, The Denver Post, "for
a series of photographs which depict the
tragic effects of starvation in Ethiopia and
for a single photograph of a woman at her
husband's gravesite on Memorial Day.“
Feature Photography 1984
23.
24. Tom Gralish of The Philadelphia Inquirer
for his series of photographs of
Philadelphia’s homeless.
Feature Photography 1986
25.
26. Michel duCille of The Miami Herald for
photographs portraying the decay and
subsequent rehabilitation of a housing
project overrun by the drug crack.
Feature photography – (1988)
27.
28. Manny Crisostomo of Detroit Free Press
for his series of photographs. depicting
student life at Southwestern High School in
Detroit.
Feature Photography – (1989)
29.
30. David C. Turnley of Detroit Free Press for
photographs of the political uprisings in
China and Eastern Europe.
Feature Photography – (1990)
31.
32. William Snyder of The Dallas Morning News for his
photographs of ill and orphaned children living in subhuman
conditions in Romania.
Feature Photography – (1991)
33.
34. "Kevin Carter, a free-lance photographer for a picture first published
in The New York Times of a starving Sudanese girl who collapsed
on her way to a feeding center while a vulture waited nearby.
Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the
Sudan famine. the picture depicts a famine stricken child being
stalked by a vulture. The child is moving towards a United Nations
food camp, located a kilometer away.
Three months later, and only weeks after being bestowed with the
Pulitzer prize, Kevin Carter committed suicide.
Feature Photography – (1994)
35.
36. A Rwandan child too weak to stand rests his head while
waiting for a vaccination. Awarded to the Associated Press
Staff for its portfolio of photographs chronicling the horror and
devastation in Rwanda.
Feature Photography (1995)
37.
38. Awarded to Stephanie Welsh, a freelancer for her shocking
sequence of photos, published by Newhouse News Service, of a
female circumcision rite in Kenya.
Feature Photography (1996)
39.
40. Awarded to Alexander Zemlianichenko of Associated Press for his
photograph of Russian President Boris Yeltsin dancing at a rock
concert during his campaign for re-election.
Feature Photography – (1997)
41.
42. Awarded to Clarence Williams of Los Angeles Times for his powerful
images documenting the plight of young children with parents
addicted to alcohol and drugs.
Feature Photography – (1998)
43.
44. Awarded to the Associated Press Photo
Staff for its striking collection of
photographs of the key players and events
stemming from President Clinton’s affair
with Monica Lewinsky and the ensuing
impeachment hearings.
Feature Photography – (1999)
45.
46. Awarded to Carol Guzy, Michael Williamson and Lucian
Perkins of The Washington Post for their intimate and
poignant images depicting the plight of the Kosovo refugees.
In this picture, sister Bernadette distributes food from in
Kukes, Albania. She decided to drive to a refugee camp
there because no refugees were coming that day through
the Morina border crossing.
Feature Photography – (2000)
47.
48. Awarded to Matt Rainey of The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., for his
emotional photographs that illustrate the care and recovery of two
students critically burned in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University.
While Alvaro struggles, Shawn is making a rapid recovery. He gently
kisses his girlfriend Tila’s hand as the two visit Alvaro at a family
barbeque during the summer. Their relationship survived despite the
injuries Shawn suffered in the fire.
Feature Photography – (2001)
49.
50. Awarded to The New York Times Staff for its photographs
chronicling the pain and the perseverance of people
enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A
young man struggles to keep his eyes open after inhaling
opium as a heroin syringe hangs from his friend’s arm
underneath a bridge in downtown Quetta, Pakistan, where
dozens congregate to inhale or inject a variety of drugs,
including opium, marijuana, and heroin. Neither man was
coherent enough to identify.
Feature Photography (2002)
51.
52. Awarded to Don Bartletti of Los Angeles Times for his
memorable portrayal of how undocumented Central American
youths, often facing deadly danger, travel north to the United
States.
Feature Photography 2003
In the vast migration that is changing the US, a Honduran boy
rides a freight through Mexico. Each year thousands of
undocumented Central Americans stow away for 1,500 miles on
the tops and sides of trains. Some are parents desperate to
escape poverty. Many are children in search of a parent who left
them behind long ago. Only the brave and the lucky reach their
goal.
53.
54. Liberia Conflict
Awarded to Carolyn Cole of Los Angeles Times for her cohesive,
behind-the-scenes look at the effects of civil war in Liberia, with
special attention to innocent citizens caught in the conflict.
Feature Photography 2004
A government soldier defends a bridge in central Monrovia where a
standoff between rebel and government forces held the city under
siege.
55.
56. Awarded to Deanne Fitzmaurice of San Francisco Chronicle for her
sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital’s effort to mend an
Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.
Feature Photography 2005
The mission to save Saleh brought him and his father to Children’s
Hospital Oakland, leaving his pregnant mother and two younger
sisters behind in Iraq. The explosion had ripped open Saleh’s
abdomen, torn off his right hand and most fingers on his left, blown
out his left eye and killed his older brother.
57.
58. Awarded to Todd Heisler of Rocky Mountain News, Denver,
Colorado, for his haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals
for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.
Feature Photography 2006
As his son’s funeral neared, Jeff Cathey’s tears rarely stopped.
He often found comfort in the men who shared his son’s
uniform. “Someone asked me what I learned from my son,” he
said. “He taught me you need more than one friend.”
59.
60. Awarded to Renée C. Byer of The Sacramento Bee for her intimate
portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he loses his battle with
cancer. Racing barefooted after kicking off her flip-flops, Cyndie pushes
her son Derek Madsen, 10, up and down hallways in the UC Davis
Medical Center in Sacramento on June 21, 2005, successfully distracting
him during the dreaded wait before his bone marrow extraction.
Feature Photography 2007
Doctors want to determine whether he is eligible for a blood stem cell
transplant, his best hope for beating neuroblastoma, a rare childhood
cancer, which was diagnosed in November 2004.
61.
62. Awarded to Preston Gannaway of the Concord (N.H.)
Monitor for her intimate chronicle of a family coping
w
with a parent’s terminal illness. Carolynne St. Pierre
pauses to compose herself while recording a video for
her children.
Feature Photography 2008
Her sister Sara Matters and cousin Anna Stoessinger
comfort her. Doctors had just told Carolynne she
would only survive for a number of weeks or months.
63.
64. Awarded to Damon Winter of The New York Times for his
memorable array of pictures deftly capturing multiple facets of
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Senator Obama
drenched, during a rally at Widener University in Chester, Pa.
(Damon Winter, The New York Times – 2008)
Feature Photography 2009
65.
66. Awarded to Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post for his intimate portrait
of a teenager who joins the Army at the height of insurgent violence in
Iraq, poignantly searching for meaning and manhood. Ian Fisher cradles
his injured elbow during his processing into the Army in Ft. Benning, Ga.
On June 20, 2007. Though he later had a change of heart after speaking
with a commander, he saw a possibility to escape his enlistment only two
days in.
Feature Photography 2010
From his first day in fatigues through his days driving a Humvee in Iraq,
military life often didn’t mesh with his expectations. Sometimes the
structure of the Army and the demands of training for war clashed with
the freedom he shared with his outside friends. (Craig F. Walker, Denver
Post – 2009)
67.
68. Awarded to Barbara Davidson of the Los Angeles Times for her
intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city’s crossfire of
deadly gang violence. Ten-year-old Erica Miranda was shot three
times in the back, knee and hip while playing basketball outside her
home in Compton.
Feature Photography 2011
A young man had walked up to the crowded street corner and started
firing a handgun in what police believe was a gang assault. A 17-year-
old relative and a 45-year-old family friend, both men, were also shot
three times and survived.
69.
70. Awarded to Craig F. Walker of The Denver
Post, for his compassionate chronicle of an
honorably discharged veteran, home from
Iraq and struggling with a severe case of
post-traumatic stress, images that enable
viewers to better grasp a national issue.
Feature Photography 2012
