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Finalist: Detroit Free Press , by David C. Turnley

For photographs of the political uprisings in China and Eastern Europe.

Winners

Prize Winner in Spot News Photography in 1990:

Photo Staff

For photographs of devastation caused by the Bay Area earthquake of October 17, 1989. Spot News Photography

Finalists

Nominated as finalists in Spot News Photography in 1990:

A photographer (presently unnamed)

For a photograph of the funeral bier of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini surrounded by a mob of emotional mourners.

Jeff Widener

For a photograph of an unidentified man blocking the path of a procession of tanks in Beijing.

The Jury

Marty Perry(Chair)

Vice President/Operations, Hartford Courant

Manny Crisostomo*

Special Projects Photographer, Detroit Free Press

William German

Executive Editor, San Francisco Chronicle

David Medina

Cable Access Coordinator, Office of the Bronx Borough President

Robert W. Ritter

General News Executive, Gannett

Winners in Spot News Photography

Ron Olshwanger

For a picture published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of a firefighter giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a child pulled from a burning building.

Scott Shaw

For his photograph of the child Jessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen.

1990 Prize Winners