{"id":7222,"date":"2022-05-02T09:48:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T13:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:00:11","slug":"a-still-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2022\/05\/02\/a-still-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Still Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Often, for many people, life flashes by in the blink of an eye. Historical events come and go, and what\u2019s left behind is a bleak memory. One way to capture life\u2019s moments is through photography. Photographs can enrich the mind and enhance the senses. By looking at an old photograph, you can see still moments of time. One thing to honor fantastic photojournalists and their photographs is the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize is <\/span>an award for an achievement in American journalism, literature or music. There are a number each year. Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded to journalists, photojournalists and artists since the early 20th century. Each decade has had numerous Pulitzer Prize winners for photojurnalism, and throughout this piece, a few noteworthy photographs will be discussed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the 1940s, the<\/span> Iwo Jima (1945) Pulitzer Prize Winner<\/span><\/a> was taken. This image depicts a group of U.S. Marines standing a United States flag in Iwo Jima, Japan, after <\/span>their \u201ccapture of the peak.\u201d This picture evokes a lot of feeling, especially for those Americans who lived during World War II. You can feel the triumph in the photo. The men who seemed completely and utterly exhausted used all their might to plant the United States flag, invoking a nationalistic feeling in many Americans. This picture also invokes a feeling of hope, as during World War II, many people were terrified of what the outcome of the war would be.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Skipping ahead a few years, for the 1960s, the <\/span>Saigon Execution (1968) Pulitzer Prize Winner<\/span><\/a> was taken. This image depicts the final moment of a Viet Cong prisoner\u2019s life. You can see the terror in the prisoner\u2019s face as he is about to lose his life. You can also see the sadness he is feeling. He knows he is about to die and looks utterly petrified. You can feel this man\u2019s loneliness as he is about to die in the company of a photojournalist and the man about to execute him. Last, you can see the still-faced man about to take the life of another. He is utterly emotionless, and his facial expression looks as if he could care less. As the photographer of this photo, Eddie Adams, stated in the documentary, however, this was a war. This was just a thing that \u201chappened.\u201d This demonstrates how war can bring out the heartlessness and selfishness in people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the 1970s, the <\/span>POW Homecoming (1974) Pulitzer Prize Winner<\/span><\/a> was taken. This photo demonstrates a lot of emotion. You can see the pure and utter happiness and joy of the soldier\u2019s family and friends as they see him, for the first time in (most likely) years. The woman in front is literally jumping for joy as she runs to greet the man. The man looks still, however, and is walking at a steady pace. He has been traumatized and will most likely never get the horror out of his mind. He seems to be preoccupied with his thoughts as he is rushed by his friends and family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the 1980s, the <\/span>Texas Cowboy (1980) Pulitzer Prize Winner<\/span><\/a> was taken. This photo is different from the previous melancholy photos. In this photo, a cowboy dressed in a button up shirt, suspenders, boots, and a black hat is sitting on a bench, inside of what looks to be a pub, eating out of a metal plate he is holding to his lap and drinking out of a metal mug. This photo stuck out because the photographer of this photo, Erwin H Hagler, described photojournalists as wanting to be seen as invisible. This man sitting down enjoying his meal also feels invisible. He is tucked away, away from everyone else, and silently enjoying his meal, seen but unseen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From the 1990s, there was a <\/span>Pulitzer prize winner from the 1993 Barcelona Olympics<\/span><\/a>. This photo is light-hearted and almost comical. This photo appears to be taken after an Olympic wrestling match. The victor is seen doing a headstand out of happiness from his victory, while his losing opponent looks utterly crushed and defeated in the background. This photo invokes a feeling of happiness and has a comedic feel to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Photojournalism is <\/span>the art or practice of communicating news by photographs. <\/span>Photojournalists face <\/span>enormous safety and security challenges<\/span>. They are easily identified, they carry heavy often expensive equipment, and by necessity need to be close to the action, all of which makes them particularly vulnerable. Also, the pay is not too great, averaging at 22,000-48,000 dollars a year. For these brave men and women, however, photojournalism is more than a job. To these people, photojournalism tells people a story more than words ever can. By going to dangerous, war-riddled places, photojournalists can show the greater American (or other nationalities) public what is going on in the world around them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Often, for many people, life flashes by in the blink of an eye. Historical events come and go, and what\u2019s left behind is a bleak memory. One way to capture life\u2019s moments is through photography. Photographs can enrich the mind and enhance the senses. By looking at an old photograph, you can see still moments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8133,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}