The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (12/29, Perez) reports, “Robert Ebert, a former Honolulu Star-Bulletin photographer who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1946 for his famed photo of a man hugging his son just back from World War II, has died. He was 98. Ebert died Wednesday after being taken to the Queen’s Medical Center because he was not feeling well, friends said.
As a photographer in the Army and later for several publications, including the Star-Bulletin, Ebert took hundreds of photos of everything from war scenes to celebrities visiting the islands. His most enduring image; of Hawaii resident Iuemon Kiyama tearfully embracing his son, Sgt. Howard Kiyama of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team upon the son’s return from Europe; garnered national attention and earned him the Pulitzer nomination. The photo ran in the Star-Bulletin and other publications, including Life magazine and the New York Daily News, where it took up the entire front page, according to one news account.”
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