Pulitzer Prize winning pictures

[dang-str8]

Post pictures that won, should have won, have a great story behind them, or you think made an impact on society...

I used to have the old Time-Life books growing up and some of the pictures on there were just unforgettable...

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[ptownhorn]

i wont ever feel sorry for myself again

 

[CharcoalCody]

I don't have a picture to share, but I cannot argue that yours is forgettable. Hard to imagine something sadder than that.

 

[Smurfette]

this one always got me.

 

[snow leopard27]

I am famliar with this photo knew the story behind it; I think it is one of the most disturbing / powerful I have ever seen.

A few weeks ago there was a thread on Texags titled something like "Post a photo showing the future of aggie football" and someone used this as a joke with a lame caption attempting comedy. It bothered me so much I felt tears coming up, and I am not a crier by any means. Thank god somone on the staff took it down.

 

[MirrOlure]

OK.........my sincere apologies for getting off topic, since this photo didn't win the Pulitzer, and incredibly, wasn't even a finalist. But in the height of the Cold War, and having just studied the "current event" of the Soviet / Afghan war, when this pic showed up in my house on the cover of National Geographic, I stopped dead in my tracks, and stared at it for several minutes. I took it in my room, and didn't even crack the cover.......just stared at the picture.

When I saw this thread title.........24 years later..........this is the first and only picture that popped into my mind:

Turns out she was 12 or 13 at the time. National Geographic tracked her down a few years ago, and here's the Wikipedia entry on her story. Incredible stuff.

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[Austintxusa]

I clicked on this post about a week ago and I still can't get that picture out of my mind.

 

[swc.lives.on]

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