Yasushi Nagao

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Nagao took this photograph of the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma (right).
Nagao took this photograph of the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma (right).

Yasushi Nagao (長尾 靖 Nagao Yasushi?, born May 20, 1930) is a press photographer.

Nagao took a photograph of Otoya Yamaguchi killing Inejiro Asanuma. At the time Nagao was a cameraman working for Mainichi Shimbun; Hisatake Abo, Nagao's a picture editor, told Nagao to cover a debate at Hibiya Hall. As Yamaguchi challenged Asanuma, Nagao changed the focus to fifteen feet from ten feet.[1]

Nagao won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and the 1960 World Press Photo of the Year award. The second award allowed Nagao to travel abroad freely, impossible for most Japanese people at the time.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ John Faber, Great News Photos and the Stories Behind Them, 2nd ed. (New York: Dover, 1978), no.58, p.126 (Google Books).
  2. ^ Untitled page about this photograph, "In pictures: 50 years of photojournalism", BBC

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