Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
- Forman climbed onto a fire truck and snapped the picture just as Diana Bryant and a daughter (Tiara Jones) fell to the ground
- Their fire escape had collapsed just as a fireman was trying to get the truck’s ladder into position
- Diana Bryant broke the fall for her daughter (who survived) but Diana died from her injuries
- Boston Herald published picture on front page the next morning, and then it was published in hundreds of other newspapers
- Image in the newspaper sparked an uproar
-most immediate reaction was negative (many people thought that it was cruel for Forman to have used this image to get money)
-However, the photograph has potentially saved thousands of lives since this incident because of tougher fire safety regulation that were imposed after this horrible event occured
In a 2005 BBC News interview, Forman said,” I was never bothered by the controversy. When you think about it, I don’t think it was that horrific. The woman at the time was not deceased; we didn’t show a dead person on the front page. She did die, which is a horrible thing...
My photograph prompted people to go out and check their fire escapes and ushered in a law that meant that the owner of the property is responsible for fire-escape safety. It was also used in many fire-safety pamphlets for many years."
- http://anzumakther.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/fire-at-marlborough-street-1975/
- http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f240/boston-fire-1975-photograph-9903/
- http://www.lyfe.freeserve.co.uk/photoforman.htm
- http://www.andreakenner.com/blog/after-35-years-news-photo-still-resonates/
- http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/the-soiling-of-the-old-glory/
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4245138.stm
- July 22, 1975
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Stanley J. Forman - photojournalist (working for the Boston Herald American newspaper company)
-captured controversial image of Diana Byrant and daughter fall from burning building after fire escape collapsed
- photograph won Forman the Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and caused Boston to impose tougher fire safety regulations
"Fire Escape Collapse" - Boston, 1975