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1. 1977

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   • Year 1977
   • Photographer Leslie Hammond
   • Nationality South Africa
   • Organization / Publication The Argus
   • Category World Press Photo of the Year
   • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
   • Date 00-08-1977
   • Country South Africa
   • Caption Police throw tear-gas at a group of chanting residents of the Modderdam squatter camp protesting against the demolition of their homes outside Cape Town.
3. • 
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   • Year 1977
   • Photographer Leslie Hammond
   • Nationality South Africa
   • Organization / Publication The Argus
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 1st prize
   • Date 00-08-1977
   • Country South Africa
   • Caption Police throw tear-gas at a group of chanting residents of the Modderdam squatter camp protesting against the demolition of their homes outside Cape Town.
4. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4724:1977003
   • Year 1977
   • Photographer Hugh Brendan McCann
   • Nationality United Kingdom
   • Organization / Publication Independent Newspapers
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 2nd prize
   • Date 1977
   • Country United Kingdom
   • Place Belfast, Northern Ireland
   • Caption Riots.
5. • 
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   • Year 1977
   • Photographer Ya'akov Saar
   • Nationality Israel
   • Organization / Publication Government Press Office
   • Category Spot News
   • Prize 3rd prize
   • Date 1977
   • Country Israel
   • Place Jerusalem
   • Caption Premier Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt exchange remarks during a working dinner at the King David Hotel.
6. • 
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   • Year 1977
   • Photographer Susan McElhinney
   • Nationality USA
   • Organization / Publication Newsweek
   • Category News Features
   • Prize 1st prize
   • Date 1977
   • Country USA
   • Place Washington DC
   • Caption President Carter slips on an icy walkway at the White House.
7. • 
     • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4727:1977040
   • Year 1977
   • Photographer Sven-Erik Sjöberg
   • Nationality Sweden
   • Organization / Publication Dagens Nyheter
   • Category News Features
   • Prize 2nd prize
   • Date 1977
   • Country South Africa
   • Caption 'White minority and black majority'.
8. • 
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   • Year 1977
   • Photographer John Downing
   • Nationality United Kingdom
   • Organization / Publication Daily Express
   • Category News Features
   • Prize 3rd prize
   • Date 1977
   • Country United Kingdom
   • Place London
   • Caption A memorial service for Elvis Presley who died on the 16th of August.
9. • 
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   • Year 1977
   • Photographer Hans Rauchensteiner
   • Nationality Germany
   • Organization / Publication Sven Simon Fotoagentur
   • Category Happy News & Humor
   • Prize 1st prize
   • Date 1977
   • Caption Embracing kangaroos.
10. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Kent E. Gavin
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Daily Mirror
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption A monk and a dog.
11. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4731:1977062
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Werner Rzehaczek
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Presse Agentur Werek
    • Category Happy News & Humor
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption A lion tamer and a lion.
12. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4732:1977080
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Victor Durmanov
    • Nationality Kazakhstan
    • Organization / Publication Chelyabinsk Rabochy
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption A young gymnast.
13. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4733:1977081
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Richard M. Titley
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Philadelphia Inquirer
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption Ten-year-old gymnast Martina Peova from Czechoslovakia practices on the balance beam despite her injury.
14. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4734:1977082
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Nancy Moran
    • Nationality USA
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country USA
    • Place Manhattan Island, New York
    • Caption Diana Nyad (US) trains for the Florida-to-Cuba swim.
15. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4735:1977131
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Vladimir Musaelyan
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication ITAR-TASS
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption The first meeting of Soviet leader Brezhnev and Chilean communist politician Louis Corvalan, who was released from the prison of the Chilean junta.
16. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Mike Moore
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Thomson Regional Newspaper
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption Her Royal Highness The Princess Anne, Mrs. Mark Phillips.
17. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Hans Windeck
    • Nationality Germany
    • Organization / Publication Sven Simon Fotoagentur
    • Category People in the News
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption Joseph Luns, Secretary-General of NATO.
18. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4738:1977161
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Imre Benkö
    • Nationality Hungary
    • Organization / Publication MTI
    • Category Arts and Sciences
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption A ballet student.
19. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4739:1977166AF
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Sergey Vasiliev
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication Vecherniy Chelyabinsk
    • Category Feature Picture stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Place Chelyabinsk
    • Caption A maternity home.
20. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Sven-Erik Sjöberg
    • Nationality Sweden
    • Organization / Publication Dagens Nyheter
    • Category Feature Picture stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country South Africa
    • Caption Everyday life in South Africa, where the white minority of 15 percent rules over 26 million people.
21. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer John H. White
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Chicago Daily News
    • Category Feature Picture stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption Nuns offer spiritual support for prisoners.
22. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Terry Phelan
    • Nationality Australia
    • Organization / Publication The Sun News Pictorial
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country Australia
    • Place Kilmore, Victoria
    • Caption Malcolm's lucky escape in a horse race. Although he was dragged along the track and trampled by his horse, he only suffered a sprained ankle.
23. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Valery Koreshkov
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication The Photographic Art Society of the Lithuanian SSR
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country Soviet Union
    • Place Moscow
    • Caption A polar bear in the zoo.
24. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Ken Sakamoto
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication Honolulu Star-Bulletin
    • Category Photo Sequences
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption Ten seconds to posterity.
25. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Vincent Mentzel
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication NRC Handelsblad
    • Category Color Picture stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country Mongolia
    • Place Ulantuge
    • Caption Training to fight potential enemies.
26. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Hans Boeck
    • Nationality Austria
    • Organization / Publication Zentrum Agency
    • Category Color Picture stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 19-12-1977
    • Country Central African Republic
    • Place Bangui
    • Caption The coronation of self-appointed Emperor Bokassa I (Jean Bedel Bokassa). Bokassa spent tens of millions of dollars of public money on his coronation, which included wearing costumes fashioned after Napoleon. Bokassa's previous title was 'President for Life'.
27. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4787:1977193AI
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Ute Mahler
    • Nationality Germany
    • Category Color Picture stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country Ukraine
    • Caption An East German team works on the Druzhba oil pipeline.
28. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4796:1977195
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Christian Dehon
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication The Sunday Mail
    • Category Miscellaneous
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption Flight sergeant Tony Hughes leans from the open doorway of a Dakota during a parachute training-flight.
29. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4797:1977196
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Juri Belinskiy
    • Nationality Russia
    • Organization / Publication ITAR-TASS
    • Category Miscellaneous
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Caption Legendary Russian clown Karandash walks with his dogs.
30. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4798:1977197
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Valdis Brauns
    • Nationality Latvia
    • Category Miscellaneous
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
31. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Ronald G. Bell
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Press Association
    • Category News Picture stories
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Caption Defense Minister Fred Mulley falls asleep next to Queen Elisabeth during a RAF airshow.
32. • 
      • detailwpp wpp:col1:dat4803:1977219AD
    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Arne Jönsson
    • Nationality Sweden
    • Organization / Publication Dagens Nyheter
    • Category News Picture stories
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country Sweden
    • Place Stockholm
    • Caption Panaminian refugee Leopoldo Aragon (50) sets himself on fire in front of the US Embassy to protest US control of the Panama Canal and the signing of the new Panama agreement. He died in hospital a few hours later.
33. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer Juhan Kuus
    • Nationality South Africa
    • Organization / Publication Die Burger
    • Category News Picture stories
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1977
    • Country South Africa
    • Place Capetown
    • Caption A man threatens to commit suicide by jumping from the YMCA building. Despite efforts to stop him, the man jumped, but fell into a safety net and survived.
34. • 
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    • Year 1977
    • Photographer John Downing
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Organization / Publication Daily Express
    • Category News Picture stories
    • Prize Honorable mention
    • Date 1977
    • Country United Kingdom
    • Place London
    • Caption A memorial service for Elvis Presley who died on the 16th of August.

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