Babe Ruth stands about 10 feet in front of home plate, slightly toward third base.\u00a0 Yankee Stadium is full and on its feet.\u00a0 The 1949 Yankees line the first base line, hats off, listening to Babe speak.\u00a0 There is no color but it is a sunny day.\u00a0 He leans to his right on a baseball bat while speaking to the crowd.\u00a0 His back is visible, and his number three is the focal point of the piece. \u00a0Banners and American flags wave above the third deck, as the Sultan of Swat says goodbye.\u00a0 This photo won the 1949 Pulitzer prize.\u00a0 Every person in attendance got, as John White said, \u201ca front seat to history.\u201d \u00a0Nat Fein captured it forever.<\/p>\n
The next photo is six Japanese men on stage.\u00a0 \u00a0This took home the Pulitzer in 1961.\u00a0 There is a black curtain behind three vertical banners, all bearing Japanese characters.\u00a0 All the men are in black suits and are standing in a circle, except for one.\u00a0 It is 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi. \u00a0He stands in the center, facing the camera.\u00a0 He has a sword in his right hand and draws it back, planning on striking to his left.\u00a0 His eyes are locked on the blade\u2019s target, Inejiro Asanuma, a socialist politician who was in the middle of a speech.\u00a0 Asanuma is trying to defend against the blow.\u00a0 He has his hands in front of him at waist height as he jumps back.\u00a0 The glasses on his face are falling off as the blade moves toward him.\u00a0 \u00a0The frame captures the moment a man dies.<\/p>\n
A 1973 photo entitled, \u201cMoment of Life\u201d shows a new mother and her newborn child.\u00a0 The mother has short dark hair.\u00a0 She is smiling ecstatically as she has just given birth.\u00a0 A man kneels beside her hospital bed. \u00a0He has on a striped shirt and a face mask as he rubs the woman\u2019s shoulders.\u00a0 The baby is still dirty with birthing fluids.\u00a0 The umbilical cord has not yet been cut.\u00a0 There are two sets of gloved hands in frame: one the doctor holding the child, the other holding a pair of surgical scissors.\u00a0 Two clean white pair of shoes in the top right corner belong to onlookers of the action. \u00a0This photograph captures the moment life is brought into the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s the opposite of the Japanese men, but just as powerful.<\/p>\n
In 1989, Ron Olshwanger captured a photograph of a St. Louis firefighter saving a child from a burning building.\u00a0 The shot is foggy with smoke.\u00a0 Adam Long, the firefighter, an African-American man with a thick mustache, holds a limp 2-year-old girl.\u00a0 She is alive, but barely.\u00a0 Long is in full gear aside from his helmet.\u00a0 The child is naked, blackened with ash, her clothes have burnt off.\u00a0 She is bleeding from a cut on her head.\u00a0 Long is attempting mouth-to-mouth CPR for the toddler.\u00a0 Behind him, other firefighters move to the smoke.\u00a0 This photo is so powerful because within it, you can see the fireman\u2019s emotions, frantically trying to save a life.\u00a0 You can also see how fragile life is: a child, an innocent but a victim regardless.<\/p>\n
The \u201996 Pulitzer winner in photography shows an Oklahoma City fireman carrying the dead body of a bombing victim.\u00a0 The photo shows the man in full gear. \u00a0He is wearing a red helmet with a yellow number 5 on the side.\u00a0 His clothing is brown except for where it is stained with the victim\u2019s blood.\u00a0 He is noticeably heartbroken looking at the body.\u00a0 The victim is a 1-year-old child, face covered in blood and body filled with shrapnel. \u00a0Not a heartwarming photo, but it tells a story.<\/p>\n
That is a trait all of these photographs have in common: the stories they convey.\u00a0 Even though no words are given within the photos, each photograph is so powerful because of the story captured by the shot.<\/p>\n
William Snyder, a Pulitzer winner himself, said, \u201cIt\u2019s not a photography contest.\u00a0 It\u2019s about telling some of the biggest stories of the year.\u201d\u00a0 The common thread among all five stories is the level of emotion they draw from an audience.\u00a0 It does not matter the audience either.\u00a0 The content speaks to all because it is so powerful.\u00a0 Each of these images, though only a single frame, tells amazing stories, essential to history.<\/p>\n
What the photojournalists are able to capture is remarkable.\u00a0 Many have no idea there are journalists on the front lines, putting themselves in such danger.\u00a0 They are surrounded by men carrying rifles and grenades and are armed only with a camera.\u00a0 It is because of these brave women and men that many of these issues are seen by the public.\u00a0 With a large enough audience, that has been emotionally moved, these photographs could potentially start major social reform.\u00a0 The stories inspire people to act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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