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1. 1984

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   • Year 1984
   • Photographer Pablo Bartholomew
   • Nationality India
   • Organization / Publication Gamma
   • Category World Press Photo of the Year
   • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
   • Date 00-12-1984
   • Country India
   • Place Bhopal
   • Caption A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.
3. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5601:1984002AL
   • Year 1984
   • Photographer Sebastião Salgado
   • Nationality Brazil
   • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
   • Category Oskar Barnack Award
   • Prize Individual awards
   • Date 1984
   • Country Ethiopia
   • Caption The refugee camps of Korem and Bathi in famine stricken Ethiopia.
4. • 
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   • Year 1984
   • Photographer José Azel
   • Nationality Cuba
   • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
   • Category Amsterdam Olympic Award
   • Prize Individual awards
   • Date 1984
   • Country USA
   • Place Los Angeles
   • Caption The Summer Olympic Games: Runners in the men's 1500m event stride past the Los Angeles Coliseum.
5. • 
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   • Year 1984
   • Photographer Pablo Bartholomew
   • Nationality India
   • Organization / Publication Gamma
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 1st prize
   • Date 00-12-1984
   • Country India
   • Place Bhopal
   • Caption A child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.
6. • 
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   • Year 1984
   • Photographer James Nachtwey
   • Nationality USA
   • Organization / Publication Black Star for Time
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 2nd prize
   • Date 1984
   • Country Nicaragua
   • Place San Juan del Norte
   • Caption Anti-Sandinista guerillas carry a wounded comrade. He was shot during battle at the bordertown, where guerillas of the ARDE movement attacked troops of the Sandinista government. He died a few hours later.
7. • 
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   • Year 1984
   • Photographer James Nachtwey
   • Nationality USA
   • Organization / Publication Black Star for Time
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 3rd prize
   • Date 1984
   • Country Nicaragua
   • Caption Contra mortally wounded in jungle warfare.
8. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5617:1984019
   • Year 1984
   • Photographer Hans-Olav Forsang
   • Nationality Norway
   • Organization / Publication Verdens Gang
   • Category News Features
   • Prize 1st prize
   • Date 1984
   • Country Ethiopia
   • Caption Famine: Age: 2 years, weight: 3000 gram.
9. • 
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   • Year 1984
   • Photographer David Burnett
   • Nationality USA
   • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images for Time
   • Category News Features
   • Prize 2nd prize
   • Date 1984
   • Country Ethiopia
   • Caption A desperate thirst.
10. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer David Burnett
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images for Time
    • Category News Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country Ethiopia
    • Caption A young girl at a camp for orphans.
11. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Thomas Haley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Sipa Press
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country India
    • Place Bhopal
    • Caption Victims of the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.
12. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Christian Vioujard
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Gamma
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country France
    • Caption President François Mitterand faces disapointing poll results.
13. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Lynn Goldsmith
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Life
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Caption Michael Jackson during his 'Victory' tour.
14. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5623:1984054
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer David Burnett
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place Los Angeles
    • Caption US track athlete Mary Deckers falls during the 3000m race at the Summer Olympics.
15. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer José Azel
    • Nationality Cuba
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place Los Angeles
    • Caption The Summer Olympic Games: Runners in the men's 1500m event stride past the Los Angeles Coliseum.
16. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer José Azel
    • Nationality Cuba
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place Los Angeles
    • Caption The Summer Olympic Games: Swimmers spring from the starting block in the men's 100m backstroke.
17. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Viktor Chernov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication RIA Novosti
    • Category Arts and Sciences
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Caption Professor Fyodorov performs an eye operation.
18. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5627:1984068
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Lucian Perkins
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Washington Post
    • Category Arts and Sciences
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place Washington
    • Caption Sankai Juku, a Japanese dance troupe, performs a dance hanging from ropes. The dancers are slowly lowered from the top of a building.
19. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Theo Westenberger
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Life
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place New York
    • Caption Students of the School of American Ballet relax at the end of a strenuous day of practice.
20. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer James Nachtwey
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for Time
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country Nicaragua
    • Place Matagalpa
    • Caption Cheers for a winner in the elections.
21. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Ronald G. Bell
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Press Association
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Caption "You!". Princess Diana meets comedian Rowan Atkinson while greeting the cast of the 'Royal Variety' show backstage.
22. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Steve McCurry
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic / Magnum Photos
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country India
    • Place Rajasthan
    • Caption Women seek shelter as a dust storm sears the arid plains.
23. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Anatoli Jolis
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Kolos Publishing House
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Caption Dogs chase their prey.
24. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5633:1984083
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Yuri Kaver
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication RIA Novosti
    • Category Nature
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Caption Birch trees.
25. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5634:1984087
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Steve McCurry
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication National Geographic / Magnum Photos
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 00-11-1984
    • Country Pakistan
    • Place Peshawar
    • Caption A successful Afghan businessman and his family of six live in a refugee camp, after having fled the capital of Kabul for political reasons.
26. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Lajos Soós
    • Nationality Hungary
    • Organization / Publication MTI
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country Hungary
    • Caption Taking proper security measures.
27. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5636:1984089
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer James Nachtwey
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for Time
    • Category Daily Life
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country El Salvador
    • Caption After a guerilla attack.
28. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5637:1984097AF
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer James Nachtwey
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for Time
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country Nicaragua
    • Place San Juan del Norte
    • Caption Anti-Sandinista guerillas carry a wounded comrade. He was shot during battle at the bordertown, where guerillas of the ARDE movement attacked troops of the Sandinista government. He died a few hours later.
29. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Dilip Mehta
    • Nationality India
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country India
    • Place Bhopal
    • Caption On December 3, a faulty valve at the Union Carbide pesticide plant caused highly toxic methyl isocyanate to escape and, for almost an hour, the gas formed a vast, dense fog of death that drifted toward Bhopal. More than 2500 people were killed, 150,000 people were treated at hospitals.
30. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Jacques Pavlovsky
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Sygma
    • Category Spot News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country Iran
    • Place Beïda
    • Caption The battle of the Iranian village of Beïda seen from the Iraqi side.
31. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Sebastião Salgado
    • Nationality Brazil
    • Organization / Publication Magnum Photos
    • Category News Features stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country Ethiopia
    • Caption The refugee camps of Korem and Bathi in famine stricken Ethiopia.
32. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5678:1984106AK
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Dilip Mehta
    • Nationality India
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category News Features stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country India
    • Place New Delhi
    • Caption The body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi lies in state in the capital where the cremation ceremony takes place. She was assassinated on 31 October.
33. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Brian Lanker
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Sports Illustrated
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Caption Portraits of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic gold medal winners: Kusuo Kitamura (Japan), 1500m freestyle. At 14-years-old, he was the youngest male in any sport ever to earn a gold medal in an individual event.
34. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Gérard Rancinan
    • Nationality France
    • Organization / Publication Sygma
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Scotland
    • Caption Scottish castles, their lords and their ghosts.
35. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Harry Benson
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Life
    • Category People in the News stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Caption Children of US presidents. Jack Carter.
36. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5737:1984117AL
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer José Azel
    • Nationality Cuba
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place Los Angeles
    • Caption The Summer Olympics: Balloons aloft during the opening ceremony of the 23rd Olympiad at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
37. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Bruce Chambers
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Long Beach Press-Telegram
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place Los Angeles
    • Caption The Olympic 3000m fight between Mary Decker (USA) and Zola Budd (UK) ends in Decker's fall.
38. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Dieter Menne
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Ruhr-Nachrichten
    • Category Sports stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 22-09-1984
    • Country West Germany
    • Place Sylt
    • Caption Pete Cabrinha (USA) loops with a surfboard at the Surf World Cup.
39. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Bill Strode
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for Humana
    • Category Arts and Sciences stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country USA
    • Place Louisville, Kentucky
    • Caption Dr. William DeVries with surgical instruments and the artificial JARVIK-7 heart. Dr. DeVries performed an artificial heart implantation on William Schroeder at the Humana Heart Centre.
40. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Henning Christoph
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Arts and Sciences stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country West Germany
    • Caption Robots operate in various German plants.
41. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Geoff Tompkinson
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Aspect Picture Library
    • Category Arts and Sciences stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place Cinderford, Gloucestershire
    • Caption The plant of Englehard Industries is the first electronic scrap refinery in the world. It utilizes a unique combination of processes, equipment and computer-controlled technology which optimizes recovery efficiency and reduces atmospheric pollution.
42. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Steve McCurry
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication for National Geographic
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country India
    • Place Rajasthan
    • Caption Women seek shelter as a dust storm sears the arid plains. For half the world's people, monsoons remain life's critical uncertainty with their destructive effects as well as blessings.
43. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Dieter Blum
    • Nationality Germany
    • Category Nature stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1984
    • Caption The Niger river is a lifeline of more than 50 million people.
44. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat5827:1984127AT
    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Steve McCurry
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication for National Geographic
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country India
    • Place Simla
    • Caption By rail across the Indian subcontinent: Through 103 tunnels in the Himalayan foothills.
45. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Gianfranco Gorgoni
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Contact Press Images
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Country Cuba
    • Caption 25 years of Castro. A neon sign of Fidel Castro, near Havana.
46. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Lynn Johnson
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Black Star for Life
    • Category Daily Life stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1984
    • Caption Kenny (10) is fitted with a pair of artificial legs. He was born without legs, and struggles to live a rewarding life with the support of his father, mother, sister and his classmates.
47. • 
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    • Year 1984
    • Photographer Hans-Olav Forsang
    • Nationality Norway
    • Organization / Publication Verdens Gang
    • Category Children's Award
    • Prize Individual awards
    • Date 1984
    • Country Ethiopia
    • Caption Famine: Age: 2 years. Weight: 3000 gram.

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