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- ↑ Heinz Dietrich Fischer; Erika J. Fischer (September 2000). Press photography awards, 1942-1998: from Joe Rosenthal and Horst Faas to Moneta Sleet and Stan Grossfeld. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 55–. ISBN 978-3-598-30184-1 . Retrieved 4 January 2011.
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