Hal Buell (–2024)
Author of Moments: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs
About the Author
Hal Buell grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and attended Northwestern University where he graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Medill School of Journalism. He went on to earn a Master's degree in journalism and, in 1956, after spending two years in the army as a Signal Corps photographer and show more staffer for Pacific Stars and Stripes, joined the The Associated Press. He was named Director of Photography in 1964 and Assistant General Manager for Newsphotos in 1968. He remained head of AP photoservices until 1990. He has won several awards for photo-editing, including the Sprague Award from the National Press Photographer's Association. Seymour Topping is the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes and a Professor of International Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He covered the Chinese civil war from 1946 to 1949 initially for the International News Service and later for The Associated Press. He served subsequently in Saigon, London, and Berlin before joining The New York Times. Topping was stationed in Moscow and Southeast Asia for the Times before becoming foreign editor and then managing editor. show less
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- Buell, Harold G
- Date of death
- 2024-01-29
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The short summaries on the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs were fascinating as well as the photographs. The book had a huge variety of types of photographs. What tied all the stories and photographs together was the randomness of the moments. And that is why I enjoyed Moments. It was a spattering of historical moments throughout the last seventy years.
Moments is at both times delightful and frightening to browse through. While it captures an amazing number of “moments” through show more history, some are horrendously shocking, as they deal with war. For that reason, I’m glad it’s not a coffee table book I’ll keep around my home. At the same time, I found both the stories and the photographs fascinating and I'm glad I checked it out from the library.
More detailed review on my blog show less
Moments is at both times delightful and frightening to browse through. While it captures an amazing number of “moments” through show more history, some are horrendously shocking, as they deal with war. For that reason, I’m glad it’s not a coffee table book I’ll keep around my home. At the same time, I found both the stories and the photographs fascinating and I'm glad I checked it out from the library.
More detailed review on my blog show less
This book is a very good photo study of WWII if one ignores the captions. Sadly the book goes from 4 to 3 stars for me for many many captions being wrong and many more being too light on information. Some photos are used more than once as well.
This book is a very good photo study of WWII if one ignores the captions. Sadly the book goes from 4 to 3 stars for me for many many captions being wrong and many more being too light on information. Some photos are used more than once as well.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs from 1942 to present day, with very nice annotations explaining the circumstances of the photographs and the technical details.This is a powerful series of photographs; probably more than half were familiar to me, but it was still illuminating to read the author's notes on the photos, interviews with the participants when possible, and information about the cameras used and the techniques.Many of these photographs have achieved iconographic status show more today, and should be familiar to any reasonably well-informed American. show less
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