World Press Photo 2020 / editor-in-chief Lars Boering; editor Rodney Bolt; World Press Photo Foundation.
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World Press Photo 2020 / editor-in-chief Lars Boering; editor Rodney Bolt; World Press Photo Foundation.
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Boering, Lars, editor.
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English
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Book
Abstract
The World Press Photo Awards have been presented since 1955 and have become the Oscars of photojournalism. Each time, the winning images form the visual news overview of that year and many of them were given iconic status. Just think of the photo of naked 9-year-old Kim Phuc, crying down the street after a napalm attack in the Vietnam War, of the 'Tankman' blocking a column of tanks in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989 to that of the crying Mexican migrant girl, last year's winning image. The book that bundles the winners was given a new, more modern design this year and focuses even more on the context and background of the news images of the year.