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Haggin Museum presents largest display of Pulitzer Prize photos ever shown in U.S.

When Camino's Sal Veder snapped a photo of a Vietnam prisoner of war returning home at Travis Air Force Base in 1973, he knew it was a good photo, he said.

"The surprise was when it won the Pulitzer," said Veder, a retired photographer for Associated Press' San Francisco and Sacramento bureaus, where for 32 years he shot disasters, Olympics and any number of other major events -- but none that got quite the attention that simple homecoming shot did.

"It just stood out," he said.

That elusive moment where a shutter clicks and history is captured on film will be the subject of an exhibit at Haggin Museum in Stockton, beginning Sunday.

"Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs" will feature 120 large-scale reproductions of Pulitzer Prize winning snapshots from 1942 to 2004.

Paired with the exhibit will be a series of special events and workshops, including a round table discussion featuring some of the photographers, like Veder, whose work will be on display.

In Veder's award-winning photo, Lt. Col. Robert Stirm is seeing his family for the first time in more than six years, after he was shot down over Hanoi in 1967.

Veder said that the photo resonates partly because the image of the returning soldier will be powerful as long as there are wars.

"That's represented by the fact that his face doesn't show in the photo," Veder said. "He's every man."

A police officer leans down to speak to a young boy at a parade in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 10, 1957. This photo will featured at the Haggin Museum. (Courtesy photo)

The exhibit features photos both instantly familiar -- U.S. Marines at Iwo Jima, Lee Harvey Oswald being murdered by Jack Ruby, the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center -- and stunningly evocative, said Susan Benedetti, Haggin's publicity coordinator.

"There are ones that people won't recognize that are incredibly moving," she said, describing one from 1985 of a woman in Ethiopia holding the body of a child who died hours earlier. "She looks like the Virgin Madonna," Benedetti said.

During the exhibit, three events will take photography from pictures into words. Veder, along with Pulitzer Prize winner Kim Komenich and exhibition curator Cyma Rubin, will attend an opening reception at the museum today.

On April 17, Komenich, Veder and Annie Wells, a Pulitzer-winning photographer now with the Los Angeles Times, will be part of a roundtable discussion on their careers and how they took their famous photos. Benedetti said she hopes the roundtable draws people interested in both history and photography.

Stockton photographers will take part in another roundtable on May 7. A catalogue and video, on sale in the museum's store, will explain the history and significance of Pulitzer photographs.

Veder laughed when asked what advice he might give to a photographer looking to create a Pulitzer photo of his or her own.

"Just keep trying," he said.

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