Harry A. Trask (1928–2002) was an American

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (suc ...

. He received the 1957

Pulitzer Prize for Photography The Pulitzer Prize for Photography was one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It was inaugurated in 1942 and replaced by two photojournalism prizes in 1968: the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and "Pulitzer Pri ...

for his reportage of the Italian cruise ship SS ''Andrea Doria'' sinking into the Atlantic Ocean. Andrea Doria sinking 2

Pulitzer Prize for Photography

Trask was a staff photographer for the ''

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'' when he photographed the Italian cruise ship SS ''Andrea Doria'' sinking into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of

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. His pictures were widely published, including in ''Life'' magazine, and won him the 1957

. Trask was using a 4×5

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camera from a light airplane. 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. His sequence continues to show the ship sinking.

Kathrine Switzer Boston Marathon photograph

Trask photographed

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being attacked by race organiser Jock Semple for being a woman and officially running in the 1967

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trask, Harry A. 20th-century American photographers American photojournalists 2002 deaths 1928 births Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners