Yasushi Nagao

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Yasushi Nagao in front of his award-winning photo (1961)

Yasushi Nagao ( Japanese 長尾 靖 Nagao Yasushi ; born May 20, 1930 , † May 2, 2009 ) was a Japanese press photographer .

Life

Yasushi studied at Chiba University until 1953 . After completing his studies, he started working as a photographer for the Mainichi Shimbun daily from April 1953 .

He became internationally known for his photo of Otoya Yamaguchi's assassination attempt on the socialist politician Inejirō Asanuma . His picture won the 1960 Press Photo of the Year and the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Photography .

Since January 1962 he worked as a freelance photographer.

Web links

Commons : Yasushi Nagao  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Yasushi Nagao . In: worldpressphoto.org, accessed July 17, 2019.
  2. ^ A b John Faber: Great News Photos and the Stories Behind Them . 2nd edition, New York, Dover, 1978, p. 126 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Nagao, Yasushi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 長尾 靖 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese press photographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1930
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2009