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The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment
Release Date: 5/22/2006
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THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS: CAPTURE THE MOMENT OPENS IN FRIST CENTER UPPER-LEVEL GALLERIES JUNE 30
Comprehensive Exhibition Comes Organized by Newseum
NASHVILLE, TENN. – (May 22, 2006) – The largest and most comprehensive exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs ever shown in the U.S. opens in the Upper-Level galleries of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts June 30, 2006. The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment will remain on exhibition through August 20, 2006.
The exhibition features more than 130 images drawn from each year’s winning entries from 1942 (the first year the Pulitzer Prize for Photography was awarded) through 2006. The stunning show features many of the most memorable and instantly recognizable images in recent decades. Included in the collection: images of Kosovo refugees (2000 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography); a scene captured at Columbine High School (2000 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news); Robert H. Jackson’s photograph of Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald (1964 Pulitzer Prize) and Joe Rosenthal’s World War II photograph of the raising of the American flag over Mount Surabachi on Iwo Jima (1945 Pulitzer Prize).
In the catalog accompanying the exhibition, Seymour Topping, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes from 1993 to 2002, calls works in Capture the Moment “indelible images that in coming centuries will inevitably be used as flashbacks to illustrate the triumphs and tragedies of our era.”
“These photographs have captured so many incredibly important moments in our history,” said Frist Center Associate Curator Nancy Cason. “What we see are split-second image stories that speak volumes. In this day and age, when we are so accustomed to absorbing and digesting moving images, these ‘captured moments’ focus our attention with razor-sharp clarity and invite us into our own history and the culture of the world around us.”
Behind these photos are stories of daring, heroism and happenstance. Each image is accompanied by the story of how each photographer captured the image and how each happened to be in position to document the moment.
Print Media Sponsor for The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment is The Tennessean.
The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment was developed by the Newseum, the interactive museum of news, in association with Business of Entertainment, Inc. NYC, Cyma Rubin Curator. The Newseum, which is moving to Washington, DC, is funded by the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. For more information about the Newseum, visit www.newseum.org.
Programs
Thursday, July 21 at 7:00 p.m., the exhibition’s curator, Cyma Rubin, will offer a Curator’s Perspective, speaking on “Defining Moments in History by The Pulitzer Prize Photographers,” in the Rechter Room at the Frist Center. Admission to the lecture is free.
Friday, August 18 at 7:00 p.m., Frist Center Associate Curator Nancy Cason will lead an ARTini discussion in the Upper-Level Galleries. The discussion is free with gallery admission. ARTini sessions are designed to offer a 15-20 minute interactive discussion in proximity to one or two works of art in an exhibition. ARTini sessions, led by Frist Center educators, curators and docents, occur the third Thursday of each month.
The Frist Center and the First Amendment Center Podcasts
The Frist Center and Nashville’s First Amendment Center (an operating program of the Freedom Forum and associated with the Newseum) have joined forces to record and present podcasts designed to explore Capture the Moment. The first podcast (posted at www.fristcenter.org) features Gene Policinski, executive director of the First Amendment Center, in a discussion of the Pulitzer Prize and photojournalism. Future podcasts planned include discussions with Frist Center curators and educators, photographers and First Amendment Center representatives.
“Visual images are a unique, effective, sometimes provocative and often deeply-moving way to convey ideas – and the free exchange of ideas is what the First Amendment is all about,” says Mr. Policinski. “We believe that free and valuable exchange will be broadened by joining with the Frist Center for occasional podcasts about free expression in art.”
Newseum
The original Newseum was open in Arlington, Va., from 1997-2002. During this period, one of the museum's most popular exhibitions was Capture the Moment. A new, greatly expanded Newseum is currently being built in Washington, D.C. on Pennsylvania Avenue between the
White House and the U.S. Capitol and adjacent to the Smithsonian museums on the National
Mall. When it opens in 2007, the Newseum — a 250,000-square-foot museum of news — will
offer visitors an experience that blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second
technology and hands-on exhibits. Its seven levels will feature a dozen major galleries — including a permanent Pulitzer Prize Photographs gallery — and 15 theaters, two broadcast studios, an Interactive Newseum, many additional displays, retail spaces and visitor services that will take museum-goers behind the scenes to experience how and why news is made.
Newseum operations are funded by the Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The Freedom Forum also funds the operations of the First Amendment Center and the Diversity Institute, both housed in the John Seigenthaler Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Pulitzer Prizes
The Pulitzer Prizes, first awarded in 1917, were the idea of publisher Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian immigrant. In his will, Pulitzer endowed Columbia University with $2 million for a school of journalism and “prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public service, public morals, American literature and the advancement of education.” Today, a 19-member Pulitzer board presents 21 prizes each year, chosen from among more than 2,500 entries.
Each year, there are two categories in which Pulitzer Prizes are awarded for photography: breaking news and feature. The competition is open to professional photojournalists and amateurs, provided the amateur photographer’s work has been published in a U.S. newspaper. For more information about the Pulitzer Prizes, visit www.pulitzer.org.
Also on exhibition
The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
June 9 – October 8, 2006
Features the largest selection of Egyptian antiquities ever displayed in North America with many artifacts never before seen outside Egypt. The exhibition explores the ancient Egyptians’ fascination with death and the afterlife through the magnificent objects they created to ensure their passage into immortality. Over 100 artifacts, including massive stone carvings of gods and pharaohs, painted coffins, tomb furnishings, gold masks, jewelry, and mummies. Explore a full-scale reproduction of the burial chamber of the New Kingdom pharaoh Thutmose III (1479 – 1425 BCE).
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., is an art exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, regional, U.S. and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions. The Frist Center’s Martin ArtQuest Gallery features 30 interactive stations relating to Frist Center exhibitions. Effective June 9-October 8, 2006, during The Quest for Immortality, the Frist Center will be open Saturday – Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., with extended hours on Thursdays and Fridays until 9:00 p.m. Additional information is available online at www.fristcenter.org. For those wishing to attend Frist Center exhibitions and activities other than The Quest for Immortality (including Frist Fridays), regular admission prices will prevail.
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