Von Haven used to cover all the Danish motorcycle and car races of his day. He was ideally situated for the shot, because back then photographers could choose their own positions and move around freely. This is very different in the sporting world of today, where movement is severely restricted.
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Capturing the homecoming of a German prisoner of war, returning from the Russian camps, to the fold of his family and fatherland, Pirath focused on the emotion-riddled face of a child, aged about twelve, who had not seen her father since she was a one-year-old.
1957
Reporters and photographers bore witness and recorded the violence that erupted when Dorothy Counts showed up for her first day at an all-white school. People threw rocks and screamed "Go back where you came from". They got their way - after a string of abuses, Dorothy's family withdrew her from the school after only four days.
1958
While his fellow reporters headed for cover, Tereba braved the rain to take his lauded shot. Winning the award established him at once as a professional photographer, at the tender age of 20.
1960
Nagao says he believes that he was simply positioned in the right place at the right time. Traveling abroad was still a distant dream for most Japanese at the time, and winning helped Nagao to fulfill his life-long ambition of exploring the world, while establishing him at 31.
1962
Braving the streets amid sniper fire, to offer last rites to the dying, the priest encountered a wounded soldier, who pulled himself up by clinging to
the priest's cassock, as bullets chewed up the concrete around them. Rondón Lovera, who had to lie flat to avoid getting shot, later said that he was unsure how he managed to take this picture.
1963
Overwhelmed with horror and the smell of burning flesh, Browne shot four rolls of the monk, who died silently. His photos prompted President Kennedy to withdraw support of the Ngo Dinh Diem government (overthrown four months later).
1964
McCullin said that he hated carrying cameras, instead preferring to carry a conscience. He felt guilty that he took pictures with the eyes of a photographer, and not with the concern of a social worker. According to him, his moody, dramatic pictures reflected his pessimistic view that there's not much hope for a better society in the future.
1965
Sawada braved going down to the riverside, which was under attack, to take the picture, and then wiped the youngest child's eyes when they reached his side. His widow tells that his evidence of the tragedies of war reached a wider audience after winning, but it also pressured him, and turned him taciturn.
1966
Sawada won the grand prize two years running. He experienced many atrocities first hand, but found it hard to talk about. His widow confides that he wasn't pleased to win that year, as the tragic photo upset him. Always a daredevil, he was killed in 1970, while on assignment in Cambodia.
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