for about $5, it was estimated by Sotheby’s to be worth between $100,000 and $150,000.
The 1995 Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography was awarded to Carol Guzy of the Washington (D.C.) Post for her series of photographs illustrating the Haitian crisis. For their coverage of Rwanda, the Pulitzer for feature photography went to four Associated Press photographers: Jacqueline Artz, Javier Bauluz, Jean-Marc Bouju, and Karsten Thielker. At the 52nd Annual Pictures of the Year Competition sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri School of Journalism, James Nachtwey (see BIOGRAPHIES) of Time magazine/Magnum Photos was named Magazine Photographer of the Year, while Michael Williamson of the Washington Post took the title of Newspaper Photographer of the Year. At the 38th Annual World Press Photo contest, the World Press Photo of the Year award was given to Nachtwey. The primary W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography went to Russian photographer Vladimir Syomin for his ongoing documentation of life in areas of Russia left untouched by industrial development. A secondary grant went to Fabio Ponzio of Rome so he could continue photographing life in Eastern Europe for his project "The Other Europe."
Alfred Eisenstaedt, one of Life magazine’s first four photographers and probably the most famous photojournalist of the 20th century, died at age 96. (See OBITUARIES.) "Eisie," as he was known to friends and associates, left a memorable montage of evocative photographs that chronicled his early years in Weimar Germany and Hitler’s Third Reich, World War II, and postwar life in the U.S.