Leica Lounge · January 8, 2015
'Home-grown' Pulitzer Prize Photographs
A passport is not a Pulitzer. In other words, being in a war zone on the other side of the world is not a guarantee you’ll get great photographs. Prize-winning photos are all around us, often coming suddenly and captured only by those who are ready for them.
On the 25th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, author and journalist Eric Newton tells the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning photos taken of the “World Series quake” by the staff of the Oakland Tribune. How do they hold up? Are they history? Art? Both? How do local news Pulitzers compare with the ones from faraway events?
Newton, co-author of Capture The Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, will lead a visual tour of the “home-grown” Pulitzer photographs. Some are born in the immediacy of a shocking news event, from the rubble of Florida hurricanes to firefighters at the World Trade Center; others are dramatic eyewitness accounts, such as the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Still other photographers linger, documenting what happens after the news, and some are the completely unexpected result of a drive in the country.
Many of the issues faced by “home-grown” Pulitzer-winners are identical to those faced by their globe-trotting colleagues: how much risk should they take? … how do they shoot in a hurry? … can they win the trust of subjects? … did they know what they had when they got it? But other issues are uniquely local, such as the welfare of the photographer’s own families.
- Cuándo
- January 8, 2015
- Dónde
- Leica Store Miami, 372 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables
