Pulitzer prize photography

Children running through Cabrini Green, one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, September 1981. Photo credit: John H. White

The story of India’s crackdown on Kashmir last August was difficult to show to the world. The unprecedented lockdown included a sweeping curfew and shutdowns of phone and internet service. But Associated Press photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and Channi Anand found ways to let outsiders see wh

For his photograph of Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow and child, taken at Dr. King's funeral.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photos are on display at the “Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs” exhibition, a show that opened its doors on June 23 at the Seoul Arts Center in southern Seoul.

1977 Pulitzer Prize, Feature Photography, Robin Hood, Chattanooga News-Free Press. By the spring of 1976, rhe Vietnam War is over. But its effects are deeply embedded in the lives of millions. Robin Hood learned a trade in Vietnam — he went over as an Army information officer and came back as a photographer. Eddie Robinson served in Vietnam, too. But the war took something away from him: his legs. The two veterans cross paths at the Armed Forces Day Parade in Chattanooga, Tenn., on May 15…

In the 1970s, for the first time, large numbers of white children and black children began attending school together. It was an experience that shaped them for life. (Michael Coers at The Courier-Journal)

The New York Times and Thomson Reuters shared the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography for coverage of Europe’s refugee crisis.

1951 Pulitzer Prize, Photography, Max Desfor, Associated Press In October 1950, photographer Max Desfor packs up his 4 x 5 Speed Graphic, straps on a parachute and jumps out of an airplane for the first time. He is covering the Korean War for The Associated Press. "As a war correspondent, I was attached to a military unit," says Desfor. "Whichever one I chose." Desfor picks the 187th Regiment, which parachutes deep into North Korea to try to liberate U.N. prisoners. The jump is successful…

For wide-ranging and illuminating photographs of Hong Kong as citizens protested infringement of their civil liberties and defended the region’s autonomy by the Chinese government.