William Seaman

For other people named William Seaman, see William Seaman (disambiguation).
"Wheels of Death", Seaman's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph

William Casper Seaman (January 19, 1925 – December 6, 1997)[1] was an American photographer from Grand Island, Nebraska.

He won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize for Photography citing "Wheels of Death", a "dramatic photograph of the sudden death of a child in the street".[2][3] He was photographer for the Minneapolis Star from 1945 to 1982.[3]

He died in Minneapolis of natural causes.[3]

  1. ^ Minnesota, Death Index, 1908-2002
  2. ^ "Photography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-13.
  3. ^ a b c "Biography for William Seaman". IMDb.