pulitzer winners

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These two photographs are Pulitzer Prize winners.
They date from a time when a substantial amount (if not all) of their merit came from the rarity of the moment they had captured. We may look at each image and know that the photographer was in location Lx, with camera Cx in his hand precisely when subjects Sx throught Sy had arranged themselves just so — at hour Hx. But all of that is gone now.
We are not struck by images in the same way anymore — because they are no longer necessarily “captured moments”. What images we see, whether they are on the printed page or on a screen, cannot escape the pervasiveness of the digital, nor detach in our minds from the possibility (the likelihood) that they’re not real... more

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