Boston Traveler, by Harry A. Trask
For his dramatic and outstanding photographic sequence of the sinking of the liner Andrea Doria, the pictures being taken from an airplane flying at a height of 75 feet only nine minutes before the ship plunged to the bottom. (The second picture in the sequence is cited as the key photograph.)
Winning Work
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Biography
Harry Trask, started his photographic career in 1951 when he was promoted from the mailroom at the Boston Herald-Traveler, where he had worked since 1944. Upon attaining this position as Staff Photographer at Boston's afternoon paper, he attended classes at the now-defunct Eastern School of Photography.
Harry is best known as the 1957 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Photojournalism, the highest honor in his chosen profession, for his photo sequence of the sinking Andrea Doria. (traskphoto.com)
The Jury
The Jury
Richard Clarke
Vincent Jones
Julius Klyman
Winners in Photography
Staff
For its consistently excellent news picture coverage in 1955, an outstanding example of which is its photo, "Bomber Crashes in Street."
John L. Gaunt
For a photo that is poignant and profoundly moving, entitled, "Tragedy by the Sea," showing a young couple standing together beside an angry sea in which only a few minutes earlier their year-old son had perished.
Virginia M. Schau
For snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, Calif., the picture being published in The Akron (OH) Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by the AP. (Schau was identified as "Mrs. Walter M. Schau" in the 1954 announcement.)
William M. Gallagher
For a photo of ex-Governor Adlai E. Stevenson with a hole in his shoe taken during the 1952 Presidential campaign.
1957 Prize Winners
Tom Little
For "Wonder Why My Parents Didn't Give Me Salk Shots?" Published on January 12, 1956.
Buford Boone
For his fearless and reasoned editorials in a community inflamed by a segregation issue, an outstanding example of his work being the editorial entitled, "What a Price for Peace," published on February 7,1956.