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Lange-Taylor Prize
The Lange-Taylor Prize (or Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize) is a prize awarded annually since 1990 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, to encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers. The prize, that has variously been $10,000 and $20,000 (USD), is named after photographer Dorothea Lange and her husband, writer Paul Schuster Taylor. It has been awarded since 1990. Winners *1991: Keith Carter *1992: Gray Brechin and Robert Dawson *1993: Donna DeCesare and Luis J. Rodriguez for ''Mara Salvatrucha'' – An exploration of the lives of the young men and women in Salvadoran street gangs. *1994: *1995: *1996: Mary Berridge and River Huston for ''Women'' – Visual and verbal portraits of HIV-positive women and their families. *1997: Ernesto Bazan and Silvana Paternostro for ''El Periodo Especial'' – Life in Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Union. *1998: Rob Amberg and Sam Gray for ''I-26: Corridor of Change'' – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established The Duke Endowment and the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke. The campus spans over on three contiguous sub-campuses in Durham, and a marine lab in Beaufort. The West Campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele, an African American architect who graduated first in his class at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design—incorporates Gothic architecture with the Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation, is adjacent to the Medical Center. East Campus, away, home to all first-years, contains Georgian-style architecture. The university administers two concurrent schools in Asia, Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore (establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Eskenazi
Jason Eskenazi (born April 23, 1960) is an American photographer, based in Brooklyn, New York. The majority of his photography is from the countries of the former Soviet Union, including his book ''Wonderland: A Fairy Tale of the Soviet Monolith'' (2008). James Estrin,Showcase: Russian Noir, ''The New York Times'' LensBlog, 7 July 2009. Accessed 1 May 2014. Eskenazi received the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, both in 1999. ''Wonderland'' won first place in a book award from Pictures of the Year International in 2008. Biography Eskenazi was born April 23, 1960, in Queens, New York. He attended Bayside High School then studied psychology and American literature at Queens College. While at Queens College he was photo editor for the yearbook, assisted photographers on assignment and worked as a freelance photographer for the ''Queens Tribune''. After graduation he worked in darkrooms, obtained local photo assignments, continued as an assistant and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 2003
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photo District News
''Photo District News'' (or ''PDN'') was an American monthly trade publication for professional photographers. ''PDN'' was first published in 1980. The publication took its name from New York City's photo district, an area of photo businesses that was once located in Flatiron District. Its closure was announced on 28 January 2020. ''Time'' has described PDN's annual list of "30 New and Emerging Photographers" as "the go-to outlet to discover up-and-coming photographers, determined on the basis of creativity, versatility and distinctive vision", and as "a career turning point" for those included on the list.How PDN’s 30 Influenced Photographers Over the Years by Ye Ming, at ''Time''; 5 June 2015; Retrieved 21 June 2015 History Originally named ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time (magazine)
''Time'' (stylized in all caps) is an American news magazine based in New York City. For nearly a century, it was published weekly, but starting in March 2020 it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. A European edition (''Time Europe'', formerly known as ''Time Atlantic'') is published in London and also covers the Middle East, Africa, and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition (''Time Asia'') is based in Hong Kong. The South Pacific edition, which covers Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, is based in Sydney. Since 2018, ''Time'' has been published by Time USA, LLC, owned by Marc Benioff, who acquired it from Meredith Corporation. History ''Time'' has been based in New York City since its first issue published on March 3, 1923, by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Lowenstein
Jon Lowenstein (born January 16, 1970) is an American documentary photographer, filmmaker, and visual artist. His work focuses on confronting the complex issues of wealth inequality, structural racism, and violence. His extensive body of work has been recognized and featured in exhibitions and museums internationally, as well as ''The New Yorker,'' ''The New York Times,'' ''NewsWeek'' and on Channel 4, a British public-service television broadcaster. He has also been a guest several times on NPR discussing issues of poverty and violence. He is a member and owner of NOOR photo agency, a cooperative photojournalist agency located in the Netherlands. He is widely known as the first person to do a documentary photography drop in Web3 in the summer of 2020. Life and work Lowenstein was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in English and completed additional study towards a Master's Degree in Fine Arts from Columbia College as well as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Parenti
Christian Parenti is an American investigative journalist, academic, and author. Early life and education Parenti is the son of Michael Parenti and Susan Parenti. He attended Buxton School in Williamstown, Massachusetts, The New School for Social Research, and the London School of Economics, where he earned a PhD in Sociology and Geography. Career His books include ''Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis'' (2000), a survey of the rise of the prison-industrial complex from the Nixon through the Reagan Era and into the present, and ''The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror'' (2003), a study of surveillance and control in modern society. ''The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq'' (2004), is an account of the US occupation of Iraq. In ''Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence'' (2011), Parenti links the implications of climate change with social and political unrest in mid-latitud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Drake
Carolyn Drake (born 1971) is an American photographer based in Vallejo, California. She works on long term photo-based projects seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and imagine alternatives to them. Her work explores community and the interactions within it, as well as the barriers and connections between people, between places and between ways of perceiving. her practice has embraced collaboration, and through this, collage, drawing, sewing, text, and found images have been integrated into her work. She is interested in collapsing the traditional divide between author and subject, the real and the imaginary, challenging entrenched binaries. Drake's extensive work among people in Central Asia, and Xinjiang in China, is presented in two self-published books, ''Two Rivers'' and ''Wild Pigeon''. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented a solo exhibition of the latter and acquired the collection of original works from the project in 2018. Drake is a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Weber (photographer)
Donald Weber (born 1973) is a Canadian photographer who focuses on the effects of world power. He is a member of VII Photo Agency. Weber's books include ''Bastard Eden, Our Chernobyl'' (2008), ''Interrogations'' (2011), ''Barricade: The EuroMaidan Revolt'' (with Arthur Bondar, 2015) and ''War Sand'' (2017). Weber has had solo exhibitions at Phodar Foundation, Pleven, Bulgaria; Pikto Gallery, Toronto, Canada; and Alice Austen House, New York City. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a World Press Photo Award, the Lange-Taylor Prize, a Sony World Photography Award and the Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography. Life and work Weber was born in 1973 in Toronto, Ontario. He joined VII Network in 2008 and became a full member of VII Photo Agency in 2013. Weber focuses on the effects of world power, how state power functions the world over and how those in power use theatre to coerce their subjects; he seeks to uncover the unspoken collaboration between the parties with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Haruf
Alan Kent Haruf (February 24, 1943 – November 30, 2014) was an American novelist. Life Haruf was born in Pueblo, Colorado, the son of a Methodist minister. In 1965 he graduated with a BA from Nebraska Wesleyan University, where he would later teach, and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1973. Before becoming a writer, Haruf worked in a variety of places, including a chicken farm in Colorado, a construction site in Wyoming, a rehabilitation hospital in Denver, a hospital in Phoenix, a presidential library in Iowa, an alternative high school in Wisconsin, and colleges in Nebraska and Illinois and as an English teacher with the Peace Corps in Turkey. He lived with his wife, Cathy, in Salida, Colorado, until his death in 2014. He had three daughters from his first marriage. All of Haruf's novels take place in the fictional town of Holt, in eastern Colorado. Holt is based on Yuma, Colorado, one of Haruf's residences in the early 1980s. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles D'Ambrosio
Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr (born 1958) is an American short story writer and essayist. Life The son of Charles D'Ambrosio, Sr (1932-2011), a professor of finance at the University of Washington, D'Ambrosio grew up with two brothers and four sisters in Seattle, Washington. He attended Oberlin College and graduated from the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he is currently on faculty. Previously, D'Ambrosio was on the faculty of Portland State University's MFA Program in Creative Writing, and has also been a visiting instructor at the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. In 2005 he married writer and musician Heather Larimer; the two divorced in 2008. D'Ambrosio is the author of two collections of short stories, '' The Point'' (1995) and '' The Dead Fish Museum'' (2006). He has also published a collection of essays ''Orphans'' (2005). His writings have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The Stranger (newspaper)'', ''The Paris Review'', '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Amberg
Rob Amberg (born 1947 in Washington, D.C.) is a North Carolina photographer, folklorist, and chronicler of a small Madison County mountain community, Revere, North Carolina (also known as Sodom or Sodom Laurel), which he depicted in his long-term photo project ''Sodom Laurel Album''. Amberg anticipated the completion of highway I-26 from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Tennessee Tri-Cities area (Bristol- Kingsport- Johnson City) and, starting in 1994, began photographing, interviewing, and collecting objects to document the cutting of a nine-mile stretch of I-26 through some of North Carolina's most spectacular vistas and some of the world's oldest mountains—a project which contributed to the publication of his book ''The New Road''. His documentary photography is archived in a collection at Duke University Library. Biography Amberg was educated in Catholic schools and graduated from the University of Dayton in 1969. While there, he produced a slide-tape presentation which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
