Moments: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs (Hardcover)

~ Hal Buell (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Chances are that a fair number of these honored pictures will be familiar to you, many of them viscerally so, from Joe Rosenthal's triumphant Iwo Jima flag-raising to Stanley Forman's brutal image of a busing-era flag attack on a black Boston lawyer; from Babe Ruth's farewell to Kevin Carter's grisly shot of a vulture eyeing a starving Sudanese baby. This book resembles Sheryle and John Leekley's 1978 collection of Pulitzer photographs, also called Moments. But the new one takes the story 20 years further and offers more technical and anecdotal background about how the pictures were achieved--with Speed Graphic or digital camera, by accident, or after a days-long stakeout. Buell, longtime head of the AP's photo services, presents all the prize's winners (1942-99), including follow-up about how the photographers felt after winning the award or whether they ever met their subjects again. The book might have been improved by interviewing the surviving subjects on how these images altered or haunted their lives. Because most of these images are already included in a variety of other sources, this is recommended for libraries that want the images all in one place.
-Nathan Ward, "Library Journal"
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Description

This book offers readers a dramatic visual chronicle of our times.

These are unforgettable moments in history--five Marines raising the US flag in Iwo Jima in 1945, Babe Ruth's final salute to Yankee stadium in 1949, Lee Harvey Oswald wincing in pain as he is shot in 1964, President Ronald Reagan being tackled into his limousine after the 1982 assassination attempt. Captured by the lenses of top photographers, these 98 Pulitzer Prize winning photographs--combined with photo-timelines--paint a dramatic and memorable montage of each year, from World War II to the last days of the 20th Century.

Etched with emotion, fury and passion, each photograph transports the reader back in time to cry with the victims or cheer with the heroes. A detailed narrative along with the timeline that pictures and notes the most significant events of each year fills in the historical background, the photographer's thoughts, the events leading up to the captured moment as well as the aperture opening and shutter speed.

All photographs are rendered in duotone or full color, producing clear and crisp images.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 255 pages
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (December 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579120784
• ISBN-13: 978-1579120788
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 10.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #500,203 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Made me cry, December 28, 1999

By	LeeAnne (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews

My husband gave me this book for Christmas and I couldnt wait to start reading (?) it. It is a collection of the pulitzer prize winning photographs of the last 50+ years. The book begins with mostly World War images but ends on a light note with Clinton and his saxophone. The pages lead you through history through pictures, not so much words and by the end I was crying so hard I couldn't see the print. It really made me think about some of the inhumanities that people have lived (and not lived) to tell about. I loved this book until the last few pages when 1999 ended with photographs of Bill & Monica. It turned sour at that point because every other picture held a noble meaning. This book is worth the money for the hours that you will spend flipping through the pages.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book, and there are others, too, August 12, 2000

By A Customer

Hal's done a great job of behind-the-scenes reporting for this book. The photos are good, too. But if you want a look at a museum-quality catalogue of these photos, try going to Newseum.org and looking at the online store for their book, The Pulitzer Prize photos...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More stories than written., March 14, 2000

By	Dennis Beall "Tsalla Apopka" (Pine Ridge, Florida) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Beautifully done book with very interesting photos and most importantly stories about the photos. An interesting fact is that the cover(1957 photo) photographer, Bill Beall, was a marine photographer in the same outfit as the photographer that took the Iwo Jima picture(1943 photo) and just by chance landed on the other side of Iwo Jima Island.