Arnold Hardy
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Arnold Hardy (February 2, 1922 – December 5, 2007) was an American amateur photographer who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.
His 1947 award-winning photo of a woman plunging from a window of the burning Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia on December 7, 1946, became the defining image of the fire that killed 119 people.[1] At the time, Hardy was 24 years old and a graduate student at Georgia Tech.[2][3]
Hardy later declined a job with the Associated Press, and instead began an x-ray equipment business.[4] He died at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta of complications following hip surgery.[2][5]
[edit] References
- ^ Powell, Kay (2007-12-06). "Arnold Hardy, 85, took Pulitzer-winning photo". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. http://www.obitwriters.org/ArnoldHardy12-7-07.pdf. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
- ^ a b "Amateur who took Pulitzer-winning Winecoff fire photo dies". Ledger-Enquirer.com. Archived from the original on 2007-12-21. http://web.archive.org/web/20071221085402/http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/251/story/194225.html. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ Heys, Sam (Winter 1993). "Pulitzer Photo". Tech Topics (Georgia Tech Alumni Association). http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/win93/pulitzer.html. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
- ^ "Arnold Hardy; took Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of 1946 Atlanta fire disaster; 85". San Diego Union-Tribune. 2007-12-17. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071217/news_1m17hardy.html. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
- ^ "Arnold E. Hardy". Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=62296504. Retrieved 2011-07-09.
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