Stan Grossfeld
Stan Grossfeld
Stan Grossfeld was born in New York City and went on to Rochester Institute of Technology to earn his BA in Professional Photography in 1973. He began his career as a journalist at The Star Ledger in Newark, N.J., where he worked for two years. Grossfeld then moved on to work for The Boston Globe in 1975 and has since been named New England Photographer of the Year five times.
Grossfeld has won two Pulitzer Prizes. His first win was for Spot News Photography in 1984 for his coverage of the effects of war on the people of Lebanon. In 1985, Grossfeld won his second Pulitzer in Feature Photography for his series of photographs of the famine in Ethiopia and for his pictures of illegal aliens at the Mexican border. In 1994, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Feature Photography for a year-long series depicting the social, medical and environmental crises caused by the depletion of natural resources.
Biography text taken from Grossfeld's Boston Globe bio page.
1984 Winner
Spot News Photography
"For his series of unusual photographs which reveal the effects of war on the people of Lebanon." - Pulitzer Board
PLO fighter guards position at Baddawi camp as oil tanks ignited by heavy shelling burn out of control.
Portrait of Yasser Arafat, embattled leader of the PLO, peers from a bullet shattered windshield.
Marine Lance Cpl. Rick Lindsey of Bowling Green, Ky. peers through newly erected barbed wire fence while on duty at the US command headquarters in Beirut.
A Moslem herdsman pilots his goats past barricades surrounding U.S. Marine positions at Beirut International Airport.
A young girl reacts with a shy giggle as the photographer catches her twirling a hoola hoop with other war orphans in southern Lebanon. The orphanage, in the town Bourj al-Shamali, is for Shiite Moslem children.
A Palestinian youth armed with a Russian made A.K. 47 stands guard at an underground shelter in the Baddawi PLO camp which had undergone heavy shelling from Syrian backed dissidents.
As shelling resumes, frightened Palestinian children are herded aboard a truck to be evacuated from the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Battle still rages between Palestinians loyal to Yasser Arafat and dissidents supported by Syria.
A Palestinian woman shows photo of her slain husband and son at the Shatilla camp in Beirut as her remaining son weeps. Christian Phalangist militiamen went on a three-day rampage last October, killing at least 300 refugees.
Chaplain George Pucciarelli listens to a Marine’s confession in a Beirut foxhole.
A Marine mops his brow while searching through twisted debris of the bombed US headquarters building at the Beirut airport.
One man openly grasps his worry beads and another his rifle as they move through the street of Tripoli.
A body of young girl lies atop others in a temporary morgue in Tripoli as civilian casualties mount.
Baddawi - A downcast Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, concedes that his troops had lost the Nahr el Bared refugee camp.
PLO soldier mans a machine gun mounted on a truck and is sped through the streets of Tripoli. Arabic writing on side of truck says in part, “there is but one God…”
Palestinian fighter calls to colleagues for more ammunition as he tries to protect Arafat’s stronghold in Baddawi refugee camp.
Moments after identifying body of his wife, a victim of fighting in Tripoli. Palestinian man grieves as hospital attendant secures coffin to top of his car outside city’s Moslem Hospital.
U.S. Marines stand guard at perimeter of their base at Beirut International Airport following a blast which killed 242 of their comrades.
A gunman loyal to Yasser Arafat runs for cover from front lines of Baddawi refugee camp.
A Palestinian sounds the call to prayer in deserted Baddawi PLO camp. The camp is situated midway between Syrian backed dissidents in the hills and PLO fighters in Tripoli.
Beirut residents ride a ferris wheel on Lebanon’s waterfront yesterday in the shadow of an American ship.
