Center for Documentary
Studies / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize
CDS Filmmaker Award
John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
Center
for Documentary Studies /
Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
This biennial prize offers publication of a book of photography,
a $3,000 award, and inclusion in an exhibition of prizewinners.
Duke University Press will publish the book in association with
CDS Books of the Center for Documentary Studies. The prize, offered
in collaboration with The Honickman Foundation, is open to American
citizens of any age who have yet to publish a book-length work.
Mary Ellen Mark will judge the fourth prize competition in fall 2008. Deadline for submission: Materials must be postmarked no later than
September 5, 2008.
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Previous Winners
Robert Frank selects Danny
Wilcox Frazier to win CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
for his black-and-white images of rural Iowa
The
Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West
by Steven B. Smith, winner of the second competition in 2004
On Fire by
Larry Schwarm, winner of the inaugural competition in 2002
Dorothea
Lange–Paul Taylor Prize
This $20,000 award is offered annually to encourage collaborative
documentary work in the tradition of photographer Dorothea Lange
and writer Paul Taylor. The Center for Documentary Studies invites
writers and photographers to make collaborative applications to
the seventeenth annual Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize. Deadline
for submission: All required materials must be submitted under one
cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January
31, 2008.
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CDS
Announces the 2007 Lange-Taylor Prizewinners
Photographer Roger LeMoyne and writer Kurt Pitzer for their project "After War "
Hand
& Eye: Fifteen Years of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor
Prize: view photographs and writing from ten
past prizewinning projects
CDS
Filmmaker Award
This $7,500 prize recognizes documentary films that combine originality
and creativity with firsthand experience in examining central issues
of contemporary life and culture. In keeping with the CDS mission,
the award was created to honor and support documentary artists whose
works are potential catalysts for education and change. The award
winners are selected from among films in competition at the Full
Frame Documentary Film Festival, held each spring in Durham,
North Carolina.
John
Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
These awards, of up to $2,000, are available to undergraduates at
four local universities (Duke University, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina
State University) to help them conduct summer-long documentary fieldwork
projects. Deadline for submissions: Submit application during the
month of February. Entries will not be accepted if postmarked after
February 29, 2008.
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banner image:
Prairie fire near Cassoday, Kansas,
1990. From On Fire by
Larry Schwarm, winner of the inaugural Center for Documentary Studies
/ Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.
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the book On Fire by Larry
Schwarm
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