About Harry A. Trask
Lived 1928 – 2002 (aged 73–74). Harry A. Trask was a photographer and photojournalist.
Harry A. Trask (1928–2002) was an American photojournalist. He received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his reportage of the Italian cruise ship SS Andrea Doria sinking into the Atlantic Ocean.
Pulitzer Prize for Photography Trask was a staff photographer for the Boston Evening Traveller when he photographed the Italian cruise ship SS Andrea Doria sinking into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts. His pictures were widely published, including in Life magazine, and won him the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. Trask was using a 4×5 Speed Graphic camera from a light airplane. It is the second picture in the sequence, taken from a height of 75 feet, nine minutes before the ship sank, that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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American photojournalist
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Harry A. Trask was born in 1928.
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Harry A. Trask died in 2002.
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Harry A. Trask was a photographer and photojournalist.
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