The photo of her falling from a building spread all over the world: She was photographed the moment she jumped. Because of her strange posture, she was called a fallen angel?

The Pulitzer Prize, also known as the "Nobel Prize of journalism", was established in 1917 according to the last wish of the American newspaper giant Joseph Pulitzer. highest honor award. The Pulitzer Prize takes real and acute social issues as its benchmark, hoping that people will think about the news. However, because of its pursuit of truth and direct contact with the scene, many famous award-winning works have also been criticized.

For example, in the world-famous "Hungry Sudan", the photographer Kevin Carter was accused of being cold-blooded and selfish. He said that when he saw the dying refugees, he did not go to rescue first but clicked the shutter. Eventually Kevin committed suicide due to depression. The 1976 award-winning work "Fire on Marlborough Street" is also such a controversial work. It is regarded as the most famous fire photo in the world because of its eerie details and real disaster scenes.

This photo was taken on July 22, 1975. In the afternoon of that day, a fire broke out in an apartment on Marlborough Street in Boston. The fire spread quickly and many high-rise residents were trapped in the flames. Local firefighters quickly arrived at the scene and rescued trapped residents while extinguishing the fire.

On the top floor of the apartment, a mother and daughter escaped to the fire escape (a fire escape ladder) and were anxiously waiting for help from firefighters. The mother and daughter were 19-year-old Diana Bryant and 2-year-old Teal Jones. When photographer Stanley Forman arrived at the scene, the firefighters had climbed up the fire escape and were preparing to help. They boarded the escape ladder.

I thought that the mother and daughter would be rescued, but sometimes accidents happen in an instant. Due to the high temperature and the weight of three people, the fragile fire escape suddenly broke, and Diana and Jones died. Falling rapidly from the fifth floor, firefighter Robert O'Neill was lucky enough to catch the ladder. In fact, the ladder was only a thin line away from them at that time. As long as they held on to the ladder for even half a minute, they would not fall.

In the end, his mother Diana died unfortunately, and Jones Jr. fell on her mother. Fortunately, he saved his life. This moment happened very quickly, and many people did not react. Only the experienced reporter Foreman pressed the shutter and recorded the entire scene of the emergency elevator breaking and the mother and daughter falling.

This is undoubtedly a shocking tragedy. A vivid life disappeared in front of everyone's eyes. After Foreman published it, he undoubtedly won the Pulitzer Prize. It also aroused huge doubts and discussions from public opinion.

On the one hand, Foreman photographed the victim’s face so clearly and recorded her last moments before her death. Many people believed that this was disrespectful to the deceased and violated the privacy of others. right. On the other hand, someone also discovered a strange detail in this set of photos, that is, in addition to Diana and her daughter, there was also a naked man standing on the roof of the building, which looked out of place in the picture. After questioning, the firefighter said he did not agree. I remember that such a person appeared at the scene.

For these two reasons, although "Fire on Marlborough Street" won the Pulitzer Prize, it did not receive much praise. The only thing that is slightly gratifying is that this disaster attracted people's attention and exposed the problem of unqualified fire escape installations in many apartments at that time. Since then, fire escapes have been rebuilt in many places to avoid similar tragedies from happening again. .