Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell

Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs by Hal Buell

Easton Press, 2006

Deluxe Leather Bound Edition

Fine Condition

This is a beautifully produced deluxe leather bound edition of “Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs” published by the Easton Press in 2006. The book measures approximately 12.5” x 10.5” and features:

·      hubbed spine, bound in premium full leathers

·      distinctive cover design, beautiful photography

·      handsome, readable typefaces, permanent satin ribbon page marker

·      elegant gilded page edges, endsheets of rich silk moire fabric

From the publisher:

“Pulitzer Prize. These words have come to represent excellence and the pinnacle of achievement in journalism. In 1942, the Pulitzer board, recognizing that photographs provide the lasting images that serve as benchmarks in our lives, began awarding Pulitzer Prizes for photojournalism. Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs collects every photograph that has been honored with this award--from 1942 through 2006--into one remarkable and profoundly moving volume.

The Pulitzer Prize photographs have borne witness to courage, as evidence in Joe Rosenthal's moving image of American GIs raising the nation's flag on Iwo Jima; national shock, as in Bob Jackson's photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald; compassion, as seen in Nick Ut's moving image of a young Vietnamese girl, her body burned with napalm, fleeing her devastated village; and to an appeal to conscience, as in Kevin Carter's heartbreaking photograph of a starving Sudanese child being trailed by a vulture. The Pulitzer Prize photographs capture moments of joy, moments of terror, and moments of introspection. Particularly with regard to the images from World War II and Vietnam, these images have become icons of our shared consciousness.

Hal Buell, drawing on interviews with the photographers and his experience as The Associated Press's head of photoservices, provides an engrossing description of the story behind the photograph. In addition, four essays by Buell examine the developments in photographic technology and their effects on photojournalism. An illustrated time line throughout the book features historic and cultural events that occurred during the year each Pulitzer photograph was taken, providing additional context from which to view the pictures. A foreword by Seymour Topping, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and Professor of International Journalism, rounds out this engrossing compendium. A riveting collection of news photography, these incomparable images are testament to the power of the photograph to provoke, compel, and inspire.”

The book is in FINE condition with the most minimal of wear. There is a blank Easton Press bookplate on the back of the front cover. There are no other markings or signs of previous ownership.