Award archive category: Photojournalism

The Robert Capa Gold Medal 1969

Excerpt from the 1970 Dateline for The Robert Capa Gold Medal for 1969: CLASS 16 ANONYMOUS CZECH PHOTOGRAPHER Robert Capa Award for superlative photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad On September 9, 1969, Look magazine published a moving photographic essay on the events in Czechoslovakia of the previous year. “A Death to Remember” told of people, who…

The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award 1968

Superlative still photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise abroad AWARD DATE: 1968 AWARD NAME: The Robert Capa Award 1968 AWARD RECIPIENT: John Olson AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: Life Magazine AWARD HONORED WORK: “The Battle That Regained and Ruined Hue” In the tradition of the great cameramen it commemorates, the Robert Capa Award for 1968 is conferred for…