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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 mostra altro 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. mostra meno

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Nome legale
Buell, Harold G
Data di morte
2024-01-29
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Attività lavorative
Photographer

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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.
 
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Luftwaffe_Flak | Feb 7, 2014 |
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 today, and should be familiar to any reasonably well-informed American.… (altro)
½
 
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burnit99 | 1 altra recensione | Apr 26, 2010 |
The reader's reaction to this book is almost certainly going to depend on one's opinion of George W. Bush. As someone who doesn't like him, I found it extremely funny, someone who likes him, or perhaps is a neutral may find it unfair.

The subtitle on the cover : "Presidential photo-ops gone awry" is rather misleading. Unlike the books of Bushisms, which take him to task for his actual misstatements, these are mostly ordinary pictures. Some catch Bush with an odd expression on his face, or clowning around. Only a few, like the shot of Bush dropping his dog Barney, can be considered photo-ops gone awry.

The text writers, Sean and Chris Kelly have attached unrelated, but sometimes extremely witty captions to the photos. The one of Bush with the Dalai Lama is priceless, and the reason I bought the book.

At the end, in the interest of fairness, the real occasions of the the photos is given.
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PuddinTame | Sep 4, 2009 |

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Popolarità
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Voto
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Recensioni
6
ISBN
41
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