Sixty Years of Showing the World to America

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs, 1942-2002

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9848418
AutoresHun Shik Kim (0000-0001-8169-9236, Korean Broadcasting System in Seoul, South Korea, autor de correspondencia), C Zoe Smith (Missouri School of Journalism,)
Año2005
Volumen67
Número4
Páginas307-323
Fecha de publicación2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGazette (Leiden Netherlands (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0016-5492 • E-ISSN: 1460-3594
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0016549205054280
OpenAlexW1994370985
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas22
Referencias citadas14

News photographs of international events serve Americans as a visual medium for understanding other cultures and countries. However, a content analysis of 60 years of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs (1942-2002) reveals that the major visual themes of the prize-winning photographs depicting international news events are predominantly about war and coups. On the other hand, the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs taken in the US reveal more diverse themes and subjects, although they, too, tend to concentrate on bad news, like crime and terrorism, social problems, racism and poverty. Based on the content analysis and personal interviews with the judges, it is believed that the Prize’s most important determinants of international news photography appear to be violence and conflict with a consideration of the photographers’ demonstration of courage producing the pictures

Art · Content analysis · Courage · Criminology · Media studies · Photography · Political science · Poverty · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Terrorism · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Law · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies