Video: Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Pulitzer Prize Is one of the most prestigious and coveted awards for photographers. For many of them, recognizing the value of their work is much more important than a monetary award of $ 10,000. Because, for the authors, these are not photographs, but memories from life that have changed and sometimes even broken lives. Most often, photographs or a series of photographs that won the competition are devoted to some little-known, or vice versa, painful problem. Therefore, most of them are perceived with difficulty, leaving a heavy sediment after viewing.
Some of the photographs created a serious resonance in society. Without a doubt, the snapshot belongs to them. Kevin Carter, which depicts a Sudanese girl bent over from hunger and a large condor awaiting her death. Having taken a picture, the photographer drove the bird away, and in the meantime, the child gathered his strength and left. After revealing his photo, Kevin got more than just Pulitzer Prize, but also a lot of reproaches in their direction. People believed that the photographer had to help the girl, take her with him, find out where she came from … But no one heard them, the photographer's words, that where this picture came from, all children and in general everyone are dying of hunger. These reproaches and the psychological trauma inflicted on what he saw in Sudan strongly affected Kevin Carter, and could not stand it, two months after receiving the award, he committed suicide.
"Photography is the most powerful weapon in the world," a photojournalist once said Eddie Adams, and was not mistaken: in confirmation, you can cite a story associated with one of his own photographs. In 1968, the photographer won a Pulitzer Prize for a photograph of a handcuffed prisoner and an officer shooting him in the head. This picture finally changed the attitude of Americans to the war in Vietnam, and played an important role in its end. Unfortunately, the world community initially saw the picture without a description. In fact, the prisoner is the captain of the Vietcong "Warriors of revenge", on their account of which hundreds of deaths of unarmed civilians. When the background was clarified, the officer from the picture had already stuck the stigma of a cruel killer, which disfigured his entire future life, because he was refused treatment in hospitals, was not allowed to work, his house and restaurant, which he tried to open, were constantly attacked by vandals.
Looking through the photographs of the winners, you get the feeling that you are studying the history of mankind over the past fifty years: indeed, these photographs captured the most important events and problems of people of their time. The main advantage of the pictures awarded Pulitzer Prize, is that they reveal the emotional side of what is happening, showing: pain, fear, hopelessness, courage and only occasionally - joy.
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