Harry A. Trask

Harry A. Trask (1928–2002) was an American photojournalist. He received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his reportage of the Italian cruise ship SS Andrea Doria sinking into the Atlantic Ocean.[1]

Pulitzer Prize for Photography
Sinking of the SS Andrea Doria.

Trask was a staff photographer for the Boston Evening Traveller when he photographed the Italian cruise ship SS Andrea Doria sinking into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. His pictures were widely published, including in Life magazine, and won him the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.[2][3][4] Trask was using a 4×5 Speed Graphic camera from a light airplane.[5] It is the second picture in the sequence, taken from a height of 75 feet, nine minutes before the ship sank, that won the Pulitzer Prize.[1] His sequence continues to show the ship sinking.[5]

Kathrine Switzer Boston Marathon photograph

Trask photographed Kathrine Switzer being attacked by race organiser Jock Semple for being a woman and officially running in the 1967 Boston Marathon.[6][7][8]

References
  1. "Harry A. Trask of Boston Traveler". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  2. "A Sinking Ship". The New York Times. 23 December 2001. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  3. "Peter Lucas: Fumbling task earned Trask a Pulitzer Prize". The Sun (Lowell). 4 September 2015. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  4. "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs And The Stories Behind Them". Ranker. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  5. Marlin, David A. "The 'Andrea Doria' sinks". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  6. "Kathrine Switzer's legend still strong 50 years later at Boston Marathon". Boston Herald. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  7. "Woman Attacked for Running the Boston Marathon in 1967 Is Running It Again, 50 Years Later". Jezebel. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
  8. "Behind The Photo That Changed The Boston Marathon Forever". Deadspin. Retrieved 2021-12-16.
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