1. 1945 Pulitzer Prize Photography 2. 1970 Winner in Feature Photography 3. 1978 Winner in Feature Photography 4. 1972 Winner in Spot Photography 5. 1969 Winner in Spot Photography 6. Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos 1942 – 2013 The Pulitzer Prize was named after publisher Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), who established the New York World and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In his will, Pulitzer left a $2 million endowment to Columbia University to establish both a school of journalism and "prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public service, public morals, American literature, and the advancement of education." Over the years, the specific award categories have been modified by the Board, which added a prize for photography in 1939 and was first awarded in 1942. The category was expanded to two awards in 1968, one for spot news and one for features. For a photograph to be nominated for a Pulitzer, it must have appeared in an American daily or weekly newspaper. The prize for photography is given for a distinguished example of breaking news or feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album. It has been presented every year except 1946 as the Pulitzer Board deemed no nomination worthy of the award. Before 1968, there was only one photography category, the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which was divided into spot news and breaking news and the feature categories. The Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography has been awarded since 1968 for a distinguished example of feature photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album. 7. Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos 1942 – 2013 (1) 8. 1942 Pulitzer Prize, Photography, Milton Brooks, The Detroit News, Ford Strikers Riot 9. Ford Strikers Riot 1942 Pulitzer Prize, Photography, Milton Brooks, The Detroit News Its April 3, 1941, day two of the first United Auto Workers strike at the Ford Motor Co. factory in Detroit. Lines of pickets have closed off all access to the factory. Production has ground to a halt; 120,000 workers are idle. Tensions are running high. Photographer Milton Brooks joins a crowd of journalists outside the gates. Brooks is an unusual news photographer: Unlike his colleagues, he rarely takes more than one picture at any event, preferring to stand patiently until the most newsworthy image presents itself. Today, as cameras snap and roll all around him. Brooks waits. Finally, the photographer sees his chance. "1 saw a man pick a fight with some of the pickets," he says. "He had the wrong side of the argument and I could tell from what he said that there would be trouble soon." Fists are clenched, clubs raised. Brooks snaps a single photograph: eight strikers, faces contorted; a lone dissenter, crouching low, his coat pulled over his head. "I took the picture quickly, hid the camera under my coat and ducked into the crowd. A lot of people would have liked to wreck that picture."

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