Awards & Winners

Virginia Schau

Virginia M. Schau was an American who was the first woman and second amateur to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography, which she was awarded in 1954. The award winning photograph was taken in Redding, California, entitled "Rescue on Pit River Bridge".

Awards by Virginia Schau

Check all the awards nominated and won by Virginia Schau.

1954


Pulitzer Prize for Photography
(For snapping a thrilling rescue at Redding, Calif., the picture being published in The Akron (OH) Beacon Journal and other newspapers and nationally distributed by the AP.)