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| Exhibit of Pulitzer Prize winning photos. Always a moving experience. |
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| Two medical workers carry an Ebola victim. |
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| Coverage of Ferguson wins a Pulitzer. |
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| Interactive poll...A year after Ferguson, have protests against police violence made a difference? |
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| Interactive poll..Should the news media avoid naming the perpetrators of mass shootings? |
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| 9/11 exhibit featuring a piece of radio tower from top of World Trade Center. |
The Pulitzer Prize photos were so moving. No one ever stops to think about what the photographer had to go through in order to get the perfect shot and how they deal with it afterwards. Just looking at some of the photos brought me to tears. I couldn't imagine how the photographers felt. I was surprised to see the Ferguson photo. I forget that it was only a year ago that it took place because I feel that it is still going on. That shot is powerful. Also at the Newseum, Loginn and I tried to be reporters.. lets just say I should stick to radiology.
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Yeah, I knew I wouldn't have any luck in front of the camera! Haha
DeleteThis is the one place I would have liked more time, I wish that we could have spent either half the day or could have had a chance to come back. It was really interesting seeing the video in the Pulitzer Prize photo gallery of all the photographers insight on what they do. Photo Journalism was actually what I was going to study before I found Avila!
ReplyDeleteThe video gave me chills. I wanted to stop watching it so I could tour the rest of the Newseum but I couldn't take my eyes off of it. So interesting to hear what the photographers thoughts are about their own photos!
DeleteI did not expect to be so moved by this museum. The Pulitzer Prize photos were tear jerking. I had a hard time appreciating the photographer at first because my only thought was that they should be actively helping instead of taking pictures of these things but I had to realize that they had an equally important role in documenting history and informing the public. The 9/11 exhibit was also very emotional.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Brandon the 9/11 exhibit was very emotionla and the photo over there were taken with perfect timing. I imagined that if I was one these photographers would I get the same photo? probablly not! because I would run for my life
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It was interesting to see photogrphers life from close prespective. I know it is difficult, but I was not expect that level of difficulty and risk the photographers might get in. In that place I really realized that one photo could speak a thousand words!
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I also enjoyed being able to see the face behind all of the images. But man, that video was super hard to watch at some points. Some of the photos were so gruesome that it was difficult to see. A picture is defiantly worth 1000 words!
DeleteI really wished we had more time to see more of the Newseum. The Pulitzer Prize photo exhibit was pretty intense. The difference in what the photographers were able to capture and hearing their side of the story for how they got the photos was truly emotional. Another tear jerking moment for me. The 9/11 exhibit was the toughest thing to swallow hearing everyone's account of where they were when the towers were originally hit. Seeing the video where the little girl was looking for her father and how so many people gathered at one house to tell others who their loved ones were.
ReplyDeleteI wish we had more time as well!! It was crazy how the photographers in the Pulitzer Prize exhibit were able to capture each moment, especially the photograph of the woman and child falling from the burning building... That photo was extremely tough to observe.
DeleteThe Newseum was very neat and I now understand why your ticket is good for 2 days! The Pulitzer Prize exhibit was so touching. It made me realize that pictures really are worth 100 words-if not more. The photo that really caught my eye was that of ferguson. It is just so close to home for me, that it was so devastating to see such horrific damage being done.
ReplyDeleteI also thought it was neat how the Newseum has the biggest standing piece of the Berlin Wall, outside of Germany. By one side being graffiti and the other side having nothing on it, really made you feel as if you were being divided.
A fun thing that Celia and I did was the News Presenter. It was fun to act like a the people on the news! Wish I could share the video of Celia presenting the news, but she may get a little upset!
Overall, I really enjoyed the Newseum and wish we could have spent more time exploring it!
I didn't even know they had a piece of the Berlin wall there. It definitely is a two day experience, I only managed to make it to 3 out of the 6 floors.
DeleteI didn't even know they had a piece of the Berlin wall there. It definitely is a two day experience, I only managed to make it to 3 out of the 6 floors.
DeleteThe Berlin wall was definitely interesting because the viewer can see the drastic differences of life between the two sides of the wall. All I had ever seen were pictures of the wall and even that they were just pictures of the graffiti side and not the other side.
DeleteI also wish we could have had more time at the Newseum! The Pulitzer Prize winners were definitely an eye opener for me because I had always just dismissed photographers as people who were just sitting on the sidelines not really doing anything but now I realize that they are the ones recording history and the emotions that went with those events. Seeing the 9/11 exhibit and the Ferguson Pultizer photograph was the most moving specifically for me since they were both in my lifetime and I remember what I was doing on those days. This museum is definitely one that I would be willing to go back to DC to visit again!
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