Excerpt from the 1959 Dateline on the Robert Capa Gold Medal: The Robert Capa Award This award, which keeps alive a memory that needs no nudging, goes again to a man who kept his mind on his work. Photographers who can read (and there are more of them than you might think) must wonder sometimes…
Award archive category: Photojournalism
Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad 1957
In Moscow, in the summer of 1956, LIFE Photographer Lisa Larsen went to see the Ambassador from Outer Mongolia and requested a visa. “What is your interest in our country?” the Ambassador wondered. In the last dozen years, only 11 Americans are known to have been permitted to visit it, none of them photo-journalists. To…