The photograph entitled "Tragedy by the Sea" appeared on the front page of The Times the next day. The image won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for press photography; the Pulitzer committee called the photo "poignant and profoundly moving." But for Gaunt, the image was hard to bear at first, his daughter recalled in Gaunt's 2007 Times. Tragedy by the Sea. Tragedy by the Sea also known as Cruel Waves is a photo showing a young couple standing together beside the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach, California. The image was captured by Los Angeles Times photographer John L. Gaunt, Jr. A few minutes before the image was taken, the couple's nineteen-month-old son had disappeared.
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Houthis have mounted at least 24 attacks between Nov. 19 and Jan. 2, according to US Central Command, including dropping from a helicopter to hijack a vessel. The 25-member crew was taken hostage. Much of it was shipped through the Red Sea. Over the same period, Australia exported goods valued at A$23 billion to Europe. The most traded items were mineral fuels, oils and distillation. From the Archives: 'Tragedy by the Sea' wins 1955 Pulitzer. April 2, 1954: A couple are photographed moments after learning that their 19-month-old child had been swept out to sea at Hermosa. All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo's Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller.
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John L. Gaunt. John Lyndon Gaunt (June 4, 1924 - October 26, 2007) also known as Jack was an American photographer who worked for the Los Angeles Times. He won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his photograph titled "Tragedy by the Sea". The image showed a man and a woman standing on a beach after their 19-month-old son disappeared. Gaunt took four quick photos of the grieving couple. One of them appeared on the front page of The Times the next morning and won him a Pulitzer and an AP Award. Critical acclaim and harsh criticism surrounded Gaunt immediately. The Pulitzer committee called the photograph, titled "Tragedy by the Sea," "poignant and profoundly moving."
Tragedy by the Sea is a photo showing a young couple standing together beside the Pacific Ocean in Hermosa Beach, California. The image was captured by Los Angeles Times photographer John L. Gaunt, Jr. A few minutes before the image was taken, the couple's nineteen-month-old son had disappeared. "Tragedy by the Sea" In the annals of history, certain photographs transcend the confines of paper and ink to tell stories of unimaginable grief and loss. One such image is the haunting depiction of John and Lillian McDonald, an ordinary young couple thrust into an extraordinary tragedy by the unforgiving sea. John and Lillian McDonald
Sketch by Celeste Canedo On the morn of April 2, 1954, LA Times photographer John Gaunt grabbed
Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph "Tragedy by the Sea" by John Gaunt, which depicts a young couple, John and Lillian McDonald, moments after learning that th. Events. How to Enter. The Pulitzer Prizes — Columbia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027. For a photo that is poignant and profoundly moving, entitled, "Tragedy by the Sea," showing a young couple standing together beside an angry sea in which only a few minutes earlier their year-old son had perished.
