William Casper Seaman (January 19, 1925 – December 6, 1997) was an American photographer from
Grand Island, Nebraska.
He won the 1959
Pulitzer Prize for Photography
The Pulitzer Prize for Photography was one of the American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for journalism. It was inaugurated in 1942 and replaced by two photojournalism prizes in 1968: the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography and "Pulitzer Pri ...
citing "Wheels of Death", a "dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street".
"Photography"
The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-13.[ He was photographer for the '']Minneapolis Star
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'' from 1945 to 1982.["Biography for William Seaman"]
IMDb.
He died in Minneapolis
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of natural causes.[
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References
1925 births
1997 deaths
20th-century American photographers
Artists from Minneapolis
Pulitzer Prize for Photography winners
Star Tribune people
20th-century American non-fiction writers
20th-century American businesspeople
People from Grand Island, Nebraska
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