These 10 Images Won Pulitzer Prize For Photography And Here Is Why!
- 10:59 pm October 18, 2022
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The photos in the gallery below received the Pulitzer Prize for photography for a reason. These photographs document historical occurrences that were inspiring, uplifting, or sometimes surprising and shocking. Pulitzer Prize-winning images frequently capture the attention of viewers due to their critical and provocative content, as well as eliciting a wide range of reactions. Every year, a large number of exceptional photographers submit their work for the Pulitzer Prize, which recognizes and rewards remarkable achievements.
#1 1968 “Kiss Of Life”
The photographer, Rocco Morabito, was driving when he noticed an electrician hanging upside down on his safety belt after being struck by 4,160 volts of electricity. In the meantime, another lineman climbed up and successfully saved his colleague by conducting mouth-to-mouth, and Morabito was there to capture the moment, receiving the spot news prize.
#2 1966 “Flee To Safety”
Another entry by a foreign photographer was the image of a South Vietnamese mother and children trying to swim across the river to escape the assault Operation Piranha. Once Kyochi Sawada’s picture won that year, he searched for the families in the actual photo and gave them half of the prize money.
#3 1958 “Faith And Confidence”
During a parade in Chinatown, Washington, DC, police officer Maurice Cullinane and two-year-old boy Allen Weaver are photographed. The policeman had advised the small kid not to come too close to the dragons, and that's when William C. Beall recorded the exchange, which the Pulitzer Prize Board described as "an appealing picture that left a significant impression on readers."
#4 1963 “Aid From The Padre”
The jurors admired the way drama, impact, and composition coexisted in this image taken by Hector Rondon. It is an image showing a wounded soldier pulling himself up to the priest. Rondon himself wasn’t sure how he managed to take the picture as the setting was quite rough: bullets flying around as it was taken during a rebellion of marines at a naval base close to Caracas, Venezuela that the photographer found out about.
#5 1973 The Terror Of War
Nick Ut began photographing at the age of 16. Despite being injured three times, he continued to cover the Vietnam War and won the prize for this photograph of a 9-year-old naked Phan Thi Kim Phuc running towards the camera following a South Vietnamese napalm bombardment. Ut transported her and the other children to the hospital, where she stayed for 14 months and underwent 17 procedures before coming home.
#6 1969 “Coretta Scott King”
Moneta Sleet Jr. photographed Coretta Scott King and her daughter Bernice in a moment of mourning after Martin Luther King Jr.'s burial in April 1968. Martin Luther King Jr. promised his supporters the day before his assassination that he was not frightened to die and that racial oppression might be vanquished in the future.