O lúdico, a emoção, a guerra e a infâmia nos Pulitzer de fotografia, de 1942 a 2011

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Para ilustrar o post, duas faces da mesma moeda. O horror da guerra na foto histórica e o prisioneiro de guerra voltando pra casa.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos

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The Pulitzer Prize was named after publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), who established the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

In his will, Pulitzer left a $2 million endowment to Columbia University to establish both a school of journalism and “prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public service, public morals, American literature, and the advancement of education.” Over the years, the specific award categories have been modified by the Board, which added a prize for photography in 1939 and was first awarded in 1942. The category was expanded to two awards in 1968, one for spot news and one for features.

An advisory board oversees the Pulitzer Prizes, with Columbia University as the administrator. Formal announcements of the Pulitzer Prizes are made each April by the president of Columbia University on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board. More than 2,000 entries are submitted annually in the competitions. Ninety judges are appointed each year to serve on twenty separate juries where they make three nominations in each of the twenty-one current categories for the Pulitzer Prizes.

For a photograph to be nominated for a Pulitzer, it must have appeared in an American daily or weekly newspaper. The prize for photography is given for a distinguished example of breaking news or feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album. It has been presented every year except 1946 as the Pulitzer Board deemed no nomination worthy of the award.

Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into spot news and breaking news and the feature categories.

The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album.

 

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