2008 Woodie Awards
Pulitzer photos exhibited at Haggin Museum
"Capture the Moment" Exhibition displays largest selection ever of prize-winning photographs in USA
Karyn Gilbert
Issue date: 4/22/05 Section: News
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The special exhibition, which runs through June 19, shows 3 by 2.5-foot photographs arranged in chronological order. Each photograph has personal thoughts from each photographer, detailing the moments leading up to when the historical photo was taken.
The raising of the American flag during World War II on the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima, is one of many photographs that hang in the Haggin Museum; other momentous events, tragic and heroic, include Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald and Slava "Sal" Veder's photos of the reunion of an American prisoner of war in Vietnam returning to his family.
The museum is offering a catalog that tells the story of the Pulitzer winners. The catalog will include black and white or color versions of the winning photographs.
The reprints are high quality and will contain the accounts of each image, biography, and history of the Pulitzer Prize. The 224-page catalog, sold in the museum store for $30, was edited by Cyma Rubin with Eric Newton, who worked at the Oakland Tribune when it won the prize for their coverage of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Rubin also produced and directed "Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs," an Emmy Award-winning television documentary that took a close look at six winning photographs. The documentary will also be sold in the museum's storefront area at the foot of the Pioneer Room for $19.95.
Joseph Pulitzer created the Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for print journalism. A photographer wouldn't claim the honor until 1942, when the board added photography as a category. To qualify for the prize, one must have his or her photograph published in an American daily or weekly newspaper.
In 1968, the photograph category was split into breaking news photo and feature photo, where the entries could be a single photo or a group of photos.
The selection of prizewinners begins with a jury of five noted newspaper photographers and editors, and they recommend three nominees for each category to the Pulitzer board. The board meets in New York in April to choose the winners who photographed a life-changing event, or brought public recognition, which then will create new career opportunities.
The Haggin Museum is open Wednesday to Sunday, 1:30-5 p.m. The admission is $5 for adults 18 and over, and $2.50 for children 10-17, students with valid identification, and seniors over 65. Children under the age of 10, accompanied by an adult, are free.