Moments: Pulitzer Prize-winning Photographs - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579122604 ISBN 13: 9781579122607

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc, 2002

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prizes are awarded annually by Columbia University's School of Journalism for outstanding achievements in literature, music and journalism. This book is a celebration of fifty years of amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning photographic images from the post-war era to the 2002 war in Afghanistan, along with the stories that lie behind them. The book celebrates four eras of photo-journalism: 1942 - 1961 - The large format camera and the early Pulitzers; 1962 - 1969 - The small camera, Vietnam and the Civil Rights Pulitzers; 1970 - 1980 - A new kind of Pulitzer - the picture story; 1981 - 2002 - Colour and digital photography, women photographers and the African Pulitzers

About this title

Book Description:

The bestselling, complete collection of more than 600 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs, from the first awards in 1942 through the 2015 honours.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1579122604
• ISBN 13: 9781579122607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Buell Hal