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There were 26 simple Photography prizes awarded in 26 years including two in 1944 (for 1943 work) and none in 1946. [1]

List of winners of Pulitzer Prize for Photography
Year Image Photographer News agency Title / Description
1942 alt = A black-and-white photograph of a group of 4–6 members of United Auto Workers beating a man. The man is trying to defend himself by covering his head with his coat. Milton Brooks Detroit News "Ford Strikers Riot"
1943 alt = A black-and-white photograph of an Indian sailor aboard a lifeboat, pleading for water. Frank Noel Associated Press "Water!"
1944 alt = A black-and-white photograph of a soldier's homecoming. The soldier is seen tightly hugging his 4–6 old daughter. His wife is stands shocked, covering her face with her hands. Their 2–3 year old son is standing in the corner, curiously observing the scene! Earle L. Bunker World-Herald
(Omaha, Nebraska) 		"Homecoming"
alt = A black-and-white photograph of Tarawa Island. A huge heap of sand can be seen, with numerous dead-bodies of Japanese soldiers. Frank Filan Associated Press "Tarawa Island"
1945 alt = A black-and-white photograph of six American soldiers raising the American Flag. Joe Rosenthal Associated Press " Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"
1946 No award
1947 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Arnold Hardy Amateur photographer
(Distributed by AP) 		A woman leaping from a fire in the Winecoff Hotel. [2]
1948 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Frank Cushing Boston Traveler "Boy Gunman and Hostage", in which a 15-year-old boy held another boy hostage in an alley. [3] [4]
1949 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Nathaniel Fein New York Herald-Tribune "Babe Ruth Bows Out", of Babe Ruth at his number retirement by the Yankees.
1950 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Bill Crouch Oakland Tribune "Near Collision at Air Show"
1951 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Max Desfor Associated Press For his photographic coverage of the Korean War, an example of which is Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea. [5]
1952 alt = A black-and-white photograph of John Robinson and Don Ultang Des Moines Register A sequence of six pictures of a Drake University– Oklahoma A&M football game in which Drake player Johnny Bright's jaw was deliberately broken.
1953 alt = A black-and-white photograph of William M. Gallagher Flint Journal
(Michigan) 		Ex-Governor Adlai Stevenson with a hole in his shoe, taken during the 1952 presidential campaign.
1954 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Virginia Schau Amateur photographer "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", a photograph of a thrilling rescue at Redding, California.
1955 alt = A black-and-white photograph of John L. Gaunt, Jr. Los Angeles Times "Tragedy by the Sea", showing a young couple standing together beside the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach, California, in which only a few minutes earlier their nineteen month-old son had perished. [4]
1956 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Staff New York Daily News For consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is "Bomber Crashes in Street", a photo of a B-26 bomber crash in a neighborhood. [4]
1957 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Harry A. Trask Boston Traveler Photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner SS Andrea Doria, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet nine minutes before the ship sank. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)
1958 alt = A black-and-white photograph of William C. Beall The Washington Daily News (D.C.) "Faith and Confidence", showing a policeman patiently reasoning with a two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade. [6]
1959 alt = A black-and-white photograph of William Seaman Minneapolis Star "Wheels of Death", his photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.
1960 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Andrew Lopez United Press International Series of four photographs of a corporal of dictator Fulgencio Batista's army, who was executed by a Fidel Castro firing squad, the principal picture showing the condemned man receiving last rites.
1961 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Yasushi Nagao Mainichi Shimbun
(Tokyo)
(Distributed by UPI) 		"Tokyo Stabbing", showing 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi stabbing Inejiro Asanuma, the chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party.
1962 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Paul Vathis Associated Press "Serious Steps", showing John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower walking together at Camp David.
1963 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Héctor Rondón La República
(Caracas, Venezuela)
(Distributed by AP) 		"Aid from the Padre", picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 El Porteñazo insurrection in Venezuela.
1964 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Robert H. Jackson Dallas Times-Herald Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald.
1965 Horst Faas Associated Press For his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.
1966 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Kyoichi Sawada United Press International For his combat photography of the war in Vietnam War during 1965. "Flee to Safety", depicting a Vietnamese family wading across a river to escape an attack, was cited as a noted example of his work. [7]
1967 alt = A black-and-white photograph of Jack R. Thornell Associated Press Civil rights activist James Meredith lying wounded on a road in Mississippi after having been shot by a roadside gunman.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  2. ^ Heys, Sam. "Pulitzer Photo - Georgia Tech student was the first photographer at the scene of Atlanta's worst hotel fire". Georgia Tech Alumni Association. Archived from the original on 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2012-04-18.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2010-05-18.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)
  4. ^ a b c Rubin, Cyma; Newton, Eric, eds. (2011). The Pulitzer Prize Photographs. Newseum Inc. ISBN  978-0-9799521-3-5.
  5. ^ Hartzenbusch, Lara (June 25, 2010). "US photographer Max Desfor relives Korean War". BBC News. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
  6. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-26. Retrieved 2011-05-29.{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link)
  7. ^ "Boston newspaper wins Pulitzer Prize". Quad-City Times. Davenport, Iowa. AP. May 3, 1966 – via Newspapers.com.


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