The Pulitzer Prize for Photography was one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It was inaugurated in 1942 and replaced by two photojournalism prizes in 1968: the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and "Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography", which was later renamed Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography in 2000.

The Pulitzer Prizes were established by the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer, which suggested four journalism awards, and were inaugurated beginning 1917. By 1942 there were eight Pulitzers for journalism; for several years now there have been 14 including the two for photojournalism.

There were 26 Photography prizes awarded in 26 years, including two in 1944 (for 1943 work) and none in 1946.^[1]

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List of winners of Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Year	Image	Photographer	News agency	Title / Description
1942		Milton Brooks	Detroit News	"Ford Strikers Riot"
1943		Frank Noel	Associated Press	"Water!"
1944		Earle L. Bunker	World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska)	"Homecoming"
		Frank Filan	Associated Press	"Tarawa Island"
1945		Joe Rosenthal	Associated Press	"Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"
1946	No award
1947		Arnold Hardy	Amateur photographer (Distributed by AP)	A woman leaping from a fire in the Winecoff Hotel.[2]
1948		Frank Cushing	Boston Traveler	"Boy Gunman and Hostage", in which a 15-year-old boy held another boy hostage in an alley.[3][4]
1949		Nathaniel Fein	New York Herald-Tribune	"Babe Ruth Bows Out", of Babe Ruth at his number retirement by the Yankees.
1950		Bill Crouch	Oakland Tribune	"Near Collision at Air Show"
1951		Max Desfor	Associated Press	For his photographic coverage of the Korean War, an example of which is Flight of Refugees Across Wrecked Bridge in Korea.[5]
1952		John Robinson and Don Ultang	Des Moines Register	A sequence of pictures of a Drake University–Oklahoma A&M football game in which Drake player Johnny Bright's jaw was deliberately broken.
1953		William M. Gallagher	Flint Journal (Michigan)	Ex-Governor Adlai Stevenson with a hole in his shoe, taken during the 1952 presidential campaign.
1954		Virginia Schau	Amateur photographer	"Rescue on Pit River Bridge", a photograph of a thrilling rescue at Redding, California.
1955		John L. Gaunt, Jr.	Los Angeles Times	"Tragedy by the Sea", shows a young couple standing together beside the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach, California. Moments earlier their nineteen-month-old son disappeared.[4]
1956		Staff	New York Daily News	For consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is "Bomber Crashes in Street", a photo of a B-26 bomber crash in a neighborhood.[4]
1957		Harry A. Trask	Boston Traveler	Photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner SS Andrea Doria, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet nine minutes before the ship sank. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)
1958		William C. Beall	The Washington Daily News (D.C.)	"Faith and Confidence", showing a policeman patiently reasoning with a two-year-old boy trying to cross a street during a parade.[6]
1959		William Seaman	Minneapolis Star	"Wheels of Death", his photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street.
1960		Andrew Lopez	United Press International	Series of four photographs of a corporal of dictator Fulgencio Batista's army, who was executed by a Fidel Castro firing squad, the principal picture showing the condemned man receiving last rites.
1961		Yasushi Nagao	Mainichi Shimbun (Tokyo) (Distributed by UPI)	"Tokyo Stabbing", showing 17-year-old Otoya Yamaguchi stabbing Inejiro Asanuma, the chairman of the Japanese Socialist Party.
1962		Paul Vathis	Associated Press	"Serious Steps", showing John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower walking together at Camp David.
1963		Héctor Rondón	La República (Caracas, Venezuela) (Distributed by AP)	"Aid from the Padre", picture of a priest holding a wounded soldier in the 1962 El Porteñazo insurrection in Venezuela.
1964		Robert H. Jackson	Dallas Times-Herald	Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald shows the moment that Ruby shot Oswald
1965		Horst Faas	Associated Press	For his combat photography of the war in South Vietnam during 1964.
1966		Kyoichi Sawada	United Press International	For his combat photography of the Vietnam War during 1965. "Flee to Safety", depicting a Vietnamese family wading across a river to escape an attack, was cited as a noted example of his work.[7]
1967		Jack R. Thornell	Associated Press	Civil rights activist James Meredith lying wounded on a road in Mississippi after having been shot by a roadside gunman.

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