April 24, 2013 Overseas Press Club Awards Dinner

THE CYMA RUBIN BEI FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD was awarded to Associated Press photographer, Oded Balilty for his coverage of an ultra orthodox wedding in Israel.

 

THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS, Capture the Moment
Exhibition News 

The 2013 Pulitzer Prize photography winners have been announced!
Breaking News: Rodrigo Abd, Manu Brabo, Narciso Contreras, Khalil Hamra and Muhammed Muheisen of the Associated Press for their compelling coverage of the civil war in Syria
Feature: Javier Manzano, a free-lance photographer, for his extraordinary picture, distributed by Agence France-Presse, of two Syrian rebel soldiers tensely guarding their position.

   
News From Taiwan

 

The final attendance for the Pulitzer Prize Photography exhibition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei reached a record-breaking 170,000!

 

The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts is the next venue presenting Capture the Moment, The Pulitzer Prize Photographs.
(April 24 - July 7, 2013)

 

There were huge lines during the final week of the Pulitzer Prize Photography exhibition at the Huashan 1914 Creative Park in Taipei!!

 

 

Awesome news from Taiwan: we broke the 100,000 visitor mark for the Pulitzer Prize Photograpy exhibition on view at Huashan Creative Park in Taipei!!

 

 

Here is a video of the installation of the Pulitzer Prize Photography exhibition at the Huashan Creative Park in Taipei.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxD7NJsTcyU

 

As of March 11th, 78,798 people have visited the Pulitzer Prize Photography exhibition at the Huashan Creative Park in Taipei.

 

 

Here is a special report in SNAPPP on the Pulitzer Photography exhibition and an interview with curator, Cyma Rubin.

 

Sisy Chen reports on the Pulitzer Photography Exhibition from Taipei.

 

 

Click on the images below for some views from Taiwan of the Capture the Moment, The Pulitzer Prize Photographs:

        

 

 

Here is a review of the Pulitzer Prize Photography Exhibition in Taipei by The China Post:

 

 

Listen to the interview with Cyma Rubin and Carolyn Cole talking about Capture the Moment, The Pulitzer Prize Photographs now on exhibit in Taipei.

 

 

Here are news reports from Taipei covering the Pulitzer Prize Photography exhibition that opened on Friday January 18th.
Taiwan News 
Focus Taiwan News Channel 

 

Taiwan is honoring the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Pulitzer Prize Photography Awards. Media Sphere Communications is hosting the exhibition at the Huashan 1914 Creative Park, in Taipei - January 18, 2013-April, 17, 2013 and at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts from April 24, 2013 - July 7, 2013.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004 PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHER CAROLYN COLE CONDUCTED A TWO-DAY PHOTOJOURNALISM WORKSHOP IN TAIPEI and a forum for the public. Read an article about her visit published by the Want China Times.
  

 

 

 

Past News for the Pulitzer Photography Exhibition:

 

 

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE NAMED CAPTURE THE MOMENT: THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2012
Click to read the review:

 

THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS, Capture the Moment, DREW THE LARGEST ATTENDANCE FOR A SINGLE EXHIBTION IN THE HISTORY OF THE  YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM.

 

 

PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION OPENED AT THE YELLOWSTONE ART MUSEUM, BILLINGS, MONTANA
(August 5 - December 31, 2011)
The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, Capture The Moment, was on view through December 31, 2011 at the Yellowstone Art Museum. Read about the exhibition in a review by Jaci Webb of the Billings Gazette.

 

 

 

PULITZER PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION: OVER 28,000 VISITED THE DURHAM MUSEUM, OMAHA, NEBRASKA
(April 9 - July 10, 2011)

 

            

 

 

 

PULITZER PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION, THE DURHAM MUSEUM, OMAHA, NEBRASKA
(April 9, - July 10, 2011)
Capture The Moment, The Pulitzer Prize Photographs opened to the public on April 9, 2011 at the Durham Museum. Cyma Rubin presented her Telly and Emmy-award winning documentary Moment of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs on April 8, 2011 at 7:00pm in the Stanley & Dorothy Truhlsen Lecture Hall.

 

 

 

OVER 300,000 VISITED THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION IN KOREA.

The 3-city tour included the Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Daegu National Museum and the Mokpo Culture & Arts Center.
(June 22, 2010 - February 22, 2011)

View the crowds at the Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul by clicking on the images below.

 

           

 

 

 

 

KOREAN PRIME MINISTER UN-CHAN JEONG VISITS THE PULITZER EXHIBITION IN SEOUL

 

Click on the photos below to see The Prime Minister's July 14, 2010 visit to Capture The Moment at the Hangaram Design Museum.

 

             
All photos JoongAng Daily News, July 14, 2010

 

 

 

 

THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS, Capture The Moment, Seoul, Korea
(Hangaram Design Museum, June 22, 2010 - August 29, 2010)

 

Cyma Rubin  traveled to Korea for the installation of the Pulitzer Prize Photography exhibition at the Seoul Arts Center's Hangaram Design Museum. Click on the images below to see photos of her visit.

     

 

 

Max Desfor, 1951 Pulitzer Prize Photographer traveled to Korea
(Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea - June 22, 2010)

 

Cyma Rubin and Max Desfor view the Pulitzer Prize photograhy exhibition at the Hangaram Design Museum. Mr. Desfor covered the Korean War for the Associated Press as a Staff Photographer until 1954. His coverage as a war correspondent earned him a Pulitzer. Click images below to see the visit and view Max Desfor's 1951 Pulitzer Prize photograph.

JoongAng Daily News, June 22, 2010                     

1951 Pulitzer Prize; Max Desfor,  courtesy Associated Press 

 

Read Max Desfor's profile on the cover of the Korean Newspaper - JoongAng Daily, June 24, 2010

Click on thumbnails below

 

       

 

 

 

 

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER - Exhibition News

 

The American Soldier, A Photographic Tribute, The Durham Museum
September 22, 2012 - January 6, 2013
The American Soldier opened at The Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. Listen to an interview on KVNO News with the curator, Cyma Rubin by clicking this link. http://www.kvnonews.com/2012/09/arts-durham/

 

Over 30,000 people visited, The American Soldier, A Photographic Tribute, at the Ohio Historical Center. Next stop for this exhibition will be The Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The exhibition is scheduled to open September 22, 2012.

 

The American Soldier, A Photographic Tribute,  Ohio Historical Center
July 1, 2011 - May 28, 2012
Columbus, Ohio

Read the interview below with Cyma Rubin, Curator of The American Soldier
Soldiering On: Photography Exhibit Bares Humanity of American Troops Dating Back to the Civil War
By Jeffrey Sheban
The Columbus Dispatch, June 26, 2011

 

 

30 Minute Documentary of The American Soldier, A Photographic Tribute filmed while on display at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
wins two, 2011 Michigan Association of Broadcasters Awards: Best News Special or Documentary & Best Special Interest Programming

 

 

 

The American Soldier, A Photographic Tribute, at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum
March 17, 2011 - June 17, 2011
Grand Rapids, Michigan

This tribute to the American Soldier captures the courage, camaraderie and human drama of U.S. servicemen and women in action through 116 photographs. It assembles images taken from the earliest use of photographic apparatus to today's digital cameras, and covers Americans in the Civil War, Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq. 

 

 

 

U.S. soldiers honored in photo exhibit showing at Gerald R. Ford Museum
by Molly Kimelman at The Grand Rapids Press 
March 19, 2011

 

 

 

 

General Petraeus Visits The American Soldier Exhibition

(Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, Kansas; March 6, 2009)

click to view full-size image

 

 

 

 Past News for The American Soldier Exhibition

 

Students Visit The American Soldier
Morning News, Florence, South Carolina
February 3, 2010, Section B, Page 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students Wrote Letters After Visiting The American Soldier
(February, 2010)

 

5th and 6th graders visited The American Soldier exhibit at the Florence Civic Center in Florence, South Carolina. Click on the images below to read the students' enthusiastic letters to their exhibition guide.