Organization / PublicationBlack Star for Time / Life
CategoryOskar Barnack Award
PrizeIndividual awards
Date00-10-1988
CaptionWhales come up for air. Three grey whales had become trapped under the ice north of Alaska. Aided by the US Air Force and Soviet ice-breakers, local Inuits succeeded in leading two of them back to the open sea.
CaptionOn Times Square, construction workers peep through a gap in a huge banner put up to hide a building site from view during Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to the United Nations.
CaptionThe simultaneous floodings of the Ganges and the Brahnaputra caused the worst inundations in the history of Bangladesh. With three-quarters of the country including Dhaka airport under water, the distribution of relief supplies faced almost insurmountable problems. When the water receded the final death toll was estimated at 2,600. Millions of people lost their homes.
CaptionA mid-air collision at an air show at the Ramstein US Air Force Base. Sixty-seven spectators and four pilots died, and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire, making it the worst air disaster of this kind in history.
CaptionClouds of tear-gas dampen the enthusiasm of demonstrators waving the Chilean flag after the majority of the population had voted to end General Pinochet's fifteen-year rule. The dictator conceded defeat, but decided to stay on until 1990.
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CaptionFather Ale Reid admisters the last rites to one of two British soldiers who were shot dead in a car-park after being dragged from their car, stripped of their clothes and beaten up by an angry mob.
CaptionSilke Bischoff (18) is taken hostage by a bank robbers, Dieter Degowski (31, pictured) and Hans-Jürgen Rösner (31) during a two-day chase across Germany and the Netherlands. With the police and the media on their heels, the desperate criminals took bank employees and bus passengers hostage. The ordeal ended in a shoot-out. Bischoff was one of two hostages who did not survive.
CaptionAfghan women and their children await their turn at a clinic. At the refugee camp, 120,000 people wait for peace to return to their country. Although after a decade of civil war the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan brought renewed hope, the number of Afghan refugees in Pakistan continued to grow.
CaptionWaving the Palestinian flag, a demonstrator mounts a burning barricade. The Palestinian Intifadah gained momentum in 1988. By the time Israel celebrated its 40th anniversary on April 21, more than 200 Palestinians had been killed in their fight for their own state.
CaptionAndrei Gromyko (79) is the centre of attention once more as the Politburo votes to remove him as Soviet President, thus clearing the way for Mikhail Gorbachev, who became the new head of state. Officially Gromyko resigned at his own request.
CaptionBenazir Bhutto during a rally. After the first free elections for 11 years, she became the first female Prime minister of an Islamic country.
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CaptionAndrei Sakharov in the company of Anatoly Aleksandrov, the former President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Sakharov has been a member of the Academy since he returned to Moscow in December 1986. In 1988 he visited the United States on his first foreign trip in 30 years.
CaptionUS President Ronald Reagan addresses students at Lononosov University on a visit to Moscow in his final year as president. A likeness of Lenin and the symbols of communism form the backdrop to his lectern.
CaptionJesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis at a Democratic Party rally. They patched up their differences after Dukakis' nomination as Democratic presidential candidate.
CaptionOne of the stars of the Olympics, US athlete Florence Griffith-Joyner is lifted in jubilation by her husband after winning gold and setting a new world record of 21.34 seconds in the 200m track race. She also won the gold medal in the 100m.
CaptionBen Johnson (in lane 6) is first away at the start of the 100m final in the Olympic athletics tournament. He won the race in 9.79 seconds. After a drugs test proved positive, Johnson lost his medal and was suspended from athletics for two years.
CaptionHorse and jockey make a supreme effort in clearing the notorious 'regulation fence' at the Tipperary Spring Water Chase, an annual National Hunt Race.
CaptionThe workman responsible for an unintended fountain that springs up from the asphalt, turns his back on the scene, dragging along his power drill.
CaptionKwasi Afari-Minta wears a fitted mask, designed to soften the scar tissue on his face. He suffered severe burns in a fire that claimed 31 lives at King's Cross underground station. The chairman chief executive of London Regional Transport resigned over the disaster.
CaptionStephen Hawking is Lucasian professor of Mathematics at Cambridge - a seat once occupied by Isaac Newton - and is pursuing a theory combining general relativity with the quantum theory. Lou Gehrigrs disease has confined him to a wheelchair.
CaptionA train wreck set on fire for training purposes at the Hazardous Materials Transportation Center. Dressed in fireproof suits, participants are taught how to put out fires and plug leaks in tanks containing toxic substances.
CaptionSeagulls have pecked out the eyes of a seal, who was found on a sandbank near Esbjerg. The herpes-A virus proved to be the cause of an epidemic killing some13,000 seals in the North Sea and the Baltic between April and October.
CaptionSeen from a Lyn helicopter of the Royal Navy, dolphins 'hitch a lift' on the bow wave of a submarine at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The rounded bow is wide enough for a number of dolphins to ride the wave made by it.
CaptionThe sifaka, a sub-species of lemur, rest in tandem. The lemur, a nocturnal mammal with a pointed snout, is unique to the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
CaptionSugar-cane harvest. Next to the traditional oxen, tractors are also used to collect the cane. The day before harvesting the leaves are burned off the cane. Ash suspended in the air makes it necessary to protect the eyes with goggles.
CaptionChases, arrests and street battles between soldiers with guns and demonstrators with catapults have become a daily reality. The Palestinian Intifadah gained momentum in 1988. By the time Israel celebrated its 40th anniversary on April 21, more than 200 Palestinians had been killed in their fight for their own state.
CaptionMourners take cover behind gravestones and flee in terror. On the eve of St. Patrick's day, 5,000 people gathered at the Catholic Milltown cemetery to bury three IRA members who had been killed by Britain's SAS regiment in Gibraltar. As the coffins were being lowered into the ground, the silence was broken by gunfire and the thud of hand grenades. The attacker tried to flee, but was beaten up by the crowd before being rescued by police. Single-handedly, he had killed three people and injured 60.
CaptionThe simultaneous floodings of the Ganges and the Brahnaputra caused the worst inundations in the history of Bangladesh. With three-quarters of the country including Dhaka airport under water, the distribution of relief supplies faced almost insurmountable problems. When the water receded the final death toll was estimated at 2,600. Millions of people lost their homes.
CaptionA succession of disasters hit Sudan in l988. First drought, then flooding. A plague of locusts devoured what little grows on the land, and hunger and civil war claimed many victims. The famine in the south drove over a million people north towards the capital.
CaptionIntense grief of bereaved Armenians after the earthquake in early December devastated the city of Leninakan. Tens of thousands lost their lives in the disaster.
Organization / PublicationBlack Star for U.S. News & World Report
CategoryPeople in the News stories
Prize2nd prize
Date1988
CountryPakistan
CaptionBenazir Bhutto makes a speech on the campaign trail. After the first free elections for 11 years, Benazir Bhutto became the first female Prime minister of an Islamic country.
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CaptionIn a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Jesse Jackson campaign sweeps the US. The black leader's enthusiastic, inspired speeches won him over seven milllion votes, but not enough to beat Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis.
CaptionHeinrich Reisenbauer with his interpretation of fir-trees. Apart from mental problems, the patients at a psychiatric institution near Vienna have something else in common: the urge to paint. Under the inspiring guidance of their psychiatrist Dr. Navratil they create works of art which are exhibited at prestigious museums all over the world. Some of their paintings sell up to $25,000.
CaptionFrenchman Philippe Starck with his latest creations. For five days the world's top designers present their latest work during the La Fiera design exhibition. Objects in new shapes, colors and materials were on show all over the city.
CaptionPerformance artist Dmitri Prigov unfolds his own version of Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, on the Moscow underground. He was arrested. The new atmosphere of openness enabled artists to express themselves more freely, but some overstepped the mark.
CaptionOn January 19 Linley Chapman was born with a congenital deformity of the skull. Using the data from a computed tomography scan, radiologist Michael Vannier pieced together a three-dimensional image for reconstructive surgery. The operation was carried out in three stages: first the skull was opened and removed, then part of it was reshaped according to the surgical plan, and finally it was carefully replaced, stitched together and re-covered with the skin. Linley's hair now covers the scar.
CaptionA train wreck set on fire for training purposes at the Hazardous Materials Transportation Center. Dressed in fireproof suits, participants are taught how to put out fires and plug leaks in tanks containing toxic substances.
