What better way to start than from the beginning... sorta, below is the photograph that won the very first Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1942.
Ford Strikers Riot
Taken by Milton Brooks in 1941 during the workers' strike at a Ford manufacturing plant. You can jump onto wikipedia to get a brief description of whats going on, but basically it just describes what you can plainly see in the photo, people kicking the shit out of some poor helpless man. Apparently the guys throwing the punches are strikebreakers, so maybe they're like security or something. But the guy on the left looks like he's having too much fun though.
If you want to get some interesting facts and more story behind the photo, check out ktxnbi's blog which has almost every Pulitzer prize winning photo and descriptions of them.
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