Friday, February 21, 2014

Kiss of Life redux


The moving photograph of a Miami woman giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a baby during a traffic jam yesterday is understandably getting a lot of attention.  Miami Herald photographer Al Diaz is rightly being praised for helping the baby get attention before doing his job and taking pictures of the scene.

It reminded me of an even more dramatic photograph of someone saving another person's life more than three decades ago.  Rocco Morabito of the Jacksonville (Fla.) Journal got the dramatic picture of an electrical lineman giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a fellow lineman. It won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for photography.