NCSU Libraries Focus Online
Volume 24 number 1 - Fall 2003
NCSU Libraries Opens Pulitzer Prize Photography Exhibition
The NCSU Libraries is pleased to host The Pulitzer Prize Photographs:
Capture the Moment, a stunning exhibition of Pulitzer Prize-winning
photographs. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, is in the
D. H. Hill Library on the NC State campus. It runs through December 13, 2003,
and it features 125 prize-winning images dating from 1942 through 2003.
Many of the exhibit's photos are instantly recognizable. These include Joe
Rosenthal's World War II photograph of the raising of the flag over Mount Suribachi
on Iwo Jima in 1945 and haunting images from the Vietnam War era.
Cyma Rubin of the Business of Entertainment, Inc., of New York City, is curator
of the exhibit. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Friends of
the Library at NC State and an alumna of NC State with a degree in textile
management. She received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from NC State in
2003. Rubin wrote and coedited the exhibit catalog and also produced and directed "Moment
of Impact: Stories of the Pulitzer Prize Photographs," an Emmy Award-winning
TV documentary examining six Pulitzer Prize-winning photographs. Both the catalog
and a VHS copy of the TV documentary are available for sale at the exhibition.
The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment was developed by the Newseum,
the interactive museum of news, in association with Business of Entertainment,
Inc. The Newseum, which is moving to Washington, D.C., 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.
The D. H. Hill Library will be closed on November 27 for the Thanksgiving
holiday. For more information about the exhibit, events, hours, or parking,
please visit the Web at www.lib.ncsu.edu/pulitzer or
call Jan Kemp at (919) 515-7188.
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