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1. 1979

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     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4927:1979001
   • Year 1979
   • Photographer David Burnett
   • Nationality USA
   • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
   • Category World Press Photo of the Year
   • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
   • Date 00-11-1979
   • Country Thailand
   • Place Sa Keo province
   • Caption A Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp.
3. • 
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   • Year 1979
   • Photographer Leonid Evseevich Iakutin
   • Nationality Russia
   • Organization / Publication Union of Journalists of the USSR
   • Category United Nations Award
   • Prize Individual awards
   • Date 1979
   • Country Vietnam
   • Caption On the land of Vietnam.
4. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4935:1979003AD
   • Year 1979
   • Photographer Floris Bergkamp
   • Nationality Netherlands, The
   • Category Oskar Barnack Award
   • Prize Individual awards
   • Date 1979
   • Caption Members of Greenpeace try to stop the dumping of nuclear waste.
5. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4939:1979004
   • Year 1979
   • Photographer Claus Bienfait
   • Nationality Germany
   • Organization / Publication Action Press
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 1st prize
   • Date 1979
   • Country United Kingdom
   • Place Ballycastle, Northern Ireland
   • Caption Bomb explosion.
6. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4940:1979005
   • Year 1979
   • Photographer Jahangir Razmi
   • Nationality Iran
   • Organization / Publication United Press International
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 2nd prize
   • Date 27-08-1979
   • Country Iran
   • Place Sanandaj
   • Caption A government firing squad executes nine Kurdish rebels and two officers of the deposed Shah's police force after summary trials. The next day, another 21 Kurdish rebels and military deserters were executed.
7. • 
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   • Year 1979
   • Photographer Donald Fontaine
   • Nationality USA
   • Organization / Publication The Morning Union
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 3rd prize
   • Date 1979
   • Caption A fireman struggles to resuscitate a three-year-old girl after she was pulled from under the bed in a room in fire.
8. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4942:1979056
   • Year 1979
   • Photographer David Burnett
   • Nationality USA
   • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
   • Category News Features
   • Prize 1st prize
   • Date 00-11-1979
   • Country Thailand
   • Place Sa Keo province
   • Caption A Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed at a refugee camp.
9. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4943:1979057
   • Year 1979
   • Photographer Hilmar Pabel
   • Nationality Germany
   • Category News Features
   • Prize 2nd prize
   • Date 1979
   • Country Malaysia
   • Place Bidong Island
   • Caption Refugees, also known as 'boat people', from Communist-controlled Vietnam, in a camp on Bidong Island, Malaysia.
10. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Hilmar Pabel
    • Nationality Germany
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Country India
    • Place Calcutta
    • Caption Mother Theresa and the sisters of her order help the hungry and sick in Calcutta.
11. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4945:1979098
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Floris Bergkamp
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1979
    • Caption Holocaust survivor and Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
12. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4946:1979099
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Christopher Barham
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Daily Mail
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Country Panama
    • Place Contadora Island
    • Caption Iran's deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in exile.
13. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4947:1979100
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Lester J. Millman
    • Nationality USA
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 05-07-1979
    • Country Israel
    • Place Jerusalem
    • Caption American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.
14. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4948:1979117
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Dmitri Donskoy
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication RIA Novosti
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1979
    • Caption Vladimir Mishkin, goal keeper of the Soviet Union national ice hockey team, protects his goal.
15. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4949:1979118
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Dieter Baumann
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Baumann Press Agency
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Caption Muddy.
16. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4950:1979119
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Anatoly Bochinin
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Union of Journalists of the USSR
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Caption A swimmer does the butterfly stroke.
17. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Sergey Vasiliev
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Union of Journalists of the USSR
    • Category General News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1979
    • Caption In a children's pool.
18. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4952:1979157
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Victor Zagumyonnov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication RIA Novosti
    • Category General News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Caption Reindeer breeders of the northern Yamal-Nenets area.
19. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4953:1979158
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Jean Pierre Laffont
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Sygma
    • Category General News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Country Colombia
    • Place Bogotá
    • Caption Year of the Child: child labor throughout the world. Workers in a brick factory.
20. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4954:1979177AJ
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Richard Leman Olsenius
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Minneapolis Tribune
    • Category Black Picture stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1979
    • Country Thailand
    • Place Sa Kaew
    • Caption Cambodians fleeing to Thailand. Mud fills the refugee camp.
21. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Hilmar Pabel
    • Nationality Germany
    • Category Black Picture stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Country Thailand
    • Caption Life in the Cambodian refugee camps at the Thai border.
22. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Terry Fincher
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Photographers International
    • Category Black Picture stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Place Hong Kong
    • Caption The Vietnamese Boat People. A refugee boat filled with human cargo arrives.
23. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Charles Robinson
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 01-09-1979
    • Country USA
    • Place Indianapolis, Indiana
    • Caption Fatal Hit. A top fuel dragster blows the supercharger off the engine on the finishing line at the National Hot Rod Association US Nationals.
24. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Dieter Baumann
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Baumann Press Agency
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Caption 'Salto Mortale'
25. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Mark Foley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 17-02-1979
    • Country USA
    • Place Daytona Beach, Florida
    • Caption Joe Frasson's car explodes in flames at a crash involving eight cars during the Sportsman 300 race at the Daytona Speedway. Frasson managed to climb safely from his car, but one other driver was seriously injured.
26. • 
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    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Valeri Shustov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Union of Journalists of the USSR
    • Category Color Picture stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1979
    • Caption These children learn to swim before they know how to walk!
27. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5004:1979213AH
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Co Rentmeester
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Life
    • Category Color Picture stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Place The Sahara, Africa
    • Caption Sahara Sailing.
28. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5012:1979214AI
    • Year 1979
    • Photographer Fred Ihrt
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Stern
    • Category Color Picture stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1979
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Place Russia
    • Caption God in Russia.

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