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
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs.
Duties and types of photographers
As in other ...
. The prize, that has variously been $10,000 and $20,000 (USD), is named after photographer
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange (born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn; May 26, 1895 – October 11, 1965) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Great Depression, Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administratio ...
and her husband, writer
Paul Schuster Taylor
Paul Schuster Taylor (June 9, 1895 in Sioux City, Iowa – March 13, 1984 in Berkeley) was a progressive agricultural economist. He was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin and earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkel ...
. It has been awarded since 1990.
Winners
*1991:
Keith Carter
*1992:
Gray Brechin Gray A. Brechin (born September 2, 1947) is an American geographer, architectural historian, and author. He is the founder and Project Scholar of The Living New Deal based at the U.C. Berkeley Department of Geography. Brechin is a frequent and popul ...
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 Silvana Paternostro (born c. 1962 in Barranquilla, Colombia) is a journalist who has written extensively on Cuba and Central and South America. She specializes in women’s issues, and has also written comprehensively about AIDS, revolutionary move ...
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'' – the physical, economic, and social changes accompanying highway construction in remote Appalachia.
*1999:
Jason Eskenazi and Jennifer Gould Keil for ''Mountain Jews: A Lost Tribe'' – the transition of a centuries-old village in the Caucasus from its traditional way of life.
*2000:
*2001:
*2002:
*2003: Misty Keasler and
Charles D'Ambrosio.
*2004: Katherine Dunn and Jim Lommasson.
*2005:
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 late ...
and Peter Brown.
*2006:
Donald Weber
Donald Weber is a literary critic and a specialist in Jewish American literature and film studies. He is the Lucia, Ruth, and Elizabeth MacGregor Professor of English and Chair of the English department at Mount Holyoke College.
Background
Weber ...
and Larry Frolick.
*2007: Kurt Pitzer and Roger LeMoyne.
*2008: Ilan Greenberg and
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 an ...
for ''Becoming Chinese: Uighurs in Cultural Transition''.
*2009: Teru Kuwayama and
Christian Parenti.
*2010: Tiana Markova-Gold and Sarah Dohrmann.
*2013: Jen Kinney.
*2014:
Jon Lowenstein.
*2015: Michel Huneault ''Post Mégantic''
*2016: Steven M. Cozart for ''The Pass/Fail Series''
*2017: Katherine Yungmee Kim for ''Severence''
*2018: Daniel Ramos for ''The Land of Illustrious Men''
*2019: Chinen Aimi for ''Finding Ryukyu''
[https://documentarystudies.duke.edu/projects/2019-lange%E2%80%93taylor-prize-chinen-aimi-finding-ryukyu]
References
External links
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Awards established in 2003
Photography awards
American non-fiction literary awards
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