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- 1 2 "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Feature Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-29. Savoia is credited with the second of twenty photographs.
- ↑ "Stephan Savoia". The Image Museum. Archived 2006-05-15. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
- ↑ Barry Petchesky. "How Crying Jordan Became A Thing". Deadspin.com. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
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