Theodore Landsmark, a local black businessman, is on his way to city hall when white students attack him. One white student grabs a flagpole with a large American flag flowing from it and begins to bludgeon Landsmark, striking him repeatedly while other white students hold him still. Stanley J. Forman captured this scene in a photograph that won him the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Va. This is the first exhibit in America to bring together all of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs since 1941, the first year photographs were eligible for the award. The exhibit includes photographs depicting moments from natural disasters and wars to heroic rescues.
Pictures are very much part of the news because they can contain a lot of information.
People of all ages come to see the exhibit, mouths agape as they stare at the photographs. This was about people, defenseless, helpless people. It was no longer just pictures to be taken. It was stories to be told. The exhibit has brought the museum record-setting attendance and the Newseum has extended the exhibit to run through May 6, Kenny said.