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A fact from Tragedy by the Sea appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 January 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Tragedy by the Sea(pictured) shows a man and a woman standing beside the ocean a few minutes after the couple's young son went missing?
Latest comment: 8 months ago4 comments3 people in discussion
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... that Tragedy by the Sea(pictured) shows a man and woman standing beside the ocean a few minutes after the couple's young son went missing? Source: Source
ALT1: ... that a 1954 image of a young couple(pictured) on a beach was taken minutes after their 19-month-old son disappeared? Source: same as a bove
ALT2: ... that Los Angeles Times photographer John L. Gaunt, Jr. captured an image of a couple(pictured) just moments after their 19-month-old son disappeared?
Overall: QPQ done. Earwig comes back clean. Image wouldn't be usable since it is neither free to use nor clear enough for a DYK. Otherwise, the hooks are all fine. Approval for ALT0 and ALT3. Addendum: For whatever reason I misread the information for the file. Image is OK to use for DYK! Sorry for the confusion, folks. —CurryTime7-24 (talk) 23:18, 2 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
Image was a cropped version so I restored the full image. I think it still conveys the emotion and maybe better because it seems to demonstrate the urgency of the moment. Lightburst (talk) 21:02, 5 January 2024 (UTC)Reply
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The Thurber obituary of Gaunt makes it clear that this photo was the crowning achievement of Gaunt's career; we could say, I think, that it was mentioned at the top of the obituary.
As I said, the obituary BEGINS "John L. Gaunt Jr., a retired Los Angeles Times photographer who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1955 for his picture of a young couple standing by the ocean moments after their young son had been pulled out to sea, died Friday. He was 83." The emphasized clause is used to identify Gaunt to Times readers. We can say that the Times staff writer chose to identify him in this way.
'Reception' is currently limited to reporting on prizes. These confer notability and the Pulitzer jury's brief remarks are of interest, but it would obviously be nice if there were some actual review comments from journalists visiting the prize exhibitions or whatever. I do understand it was a long time ago.
I am not able to find more reviews but I will keep poking around.
Definitely worth the effort. I wondered, reading the more detailed 'Background', whether that section should not be limited to events before the photograph ('Prelude', perhaps), i.e. we take a chronological approach, and place the later events in 'Aftermath' or something of that sort, after the 'Description'. But this is purely optional.
Well, there's not much to say about this short article, other than one could wish there was more, but it is as it is. None of the news reports give away anything more that's useful here. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)Reply
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I changed the language from saying that the photographer made claims about the exposure settings to the more neutral wording that he stated his recollections. The newspaper article says that he recollected it. However, an exposure of 1/250 of a second at f/16 with the films of the day, likely later in the day, seems like a low exposure value. Bubba73You talkin' to me?22:59, 10 May 2024 (UTC)Reply