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The Incredible Stories Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photos
Articles/Photo history
Table of content
1. Daylight Execution at Saigon - Pulitzer Prize in 19692. Rescue on Pit River Bridge - Pulitzer Prize in 1954
3. Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald - Pulitzer Prize in 1964
4. Tokyo Stabbing - Pulitzer Prize in 1961
5. The Kiss of Life - Pulitzer Prize in 1968
6. Tragedy by the Sea - Pulitzer Prize in 1955
7. Leap of Faith From a Blazing Hotel - Pulitzer Prize in 1947
8. Faith and Confidence - Pulitzer Prize in 1958
9. Last Rites of Jose Rodriquez - Pulitzer Prize in 1960
10. Homecoming - Pulitzer Prize in 1944
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Faith and Confidence - Pulitzer Prize in 1958
During a Chinatown parade in 1957, Washington Daily News photographer William C. Beall captured a moment between two-year-old Allen Weaver and police officer Maurice Cullinane. The boy was stopped by Cullinane from running into the parade.
William Beall's son Denny said his father had taken the image by chance:
He just happened to turn, he saw that and snapped it, just like that: Spin, click, and he had it
William Beall stated that he used an aperture of f16 and a shutter speed of 1⁄100 of a second. One description of the image states that the young boy wanted to get closer to the parade to see the dancing dragons and the police officer told him to stop because of traffic and firecrackers. The boy's father was a Marine, stationed in Japan.
The boy in the image, Allan Weaver, later described what happened in the image
As a policeman came, I leaned up and asked him if he was a Marine
This touching image, symbolizing childhood innocence, won Beall the Pulitzer Prize.
Zheludkov Andrii
CEO at Photo.Travel. In case of urgent questions or cooperation, please, drop me a line on andrzej@photo.travel. I speak English, Ukrainian, Russian.
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