
Lange-Taylor
Prize Overview
The year 2010 marks the twentieth anniversary
of the Dorothea
Lange–Paul Taylor documentary prize, a $20,000 award given annually
by the Center for Documentary Studies. First announced a year after
the Center's founding at Duke University, the prize was created to
encourage collaboration between documentary writers and photographers
in the tradition of the acclaimed photographer Dorothea Lange and
writer and social scientist Paul Taylor. In 1941 Lange and Taylor
published An American Exodus,
a book that renders human experience eloquently in text and images
and remains a seminal work in documentary studies. The Lange-Taylor
Prize honors their important collaborative work.
The Lange-Taylor Prize is offered to a writer and a photographer in
the early stages of a documentary project. By encouraging such collaborative
efforts, the Center for Documentary Studies supports the documentary
process in which writers and photographers work together to record
the human story.

GALLERY
Hand & Eye:
Fifteen Years of the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize: view
photographs and writing from ten past prizewinning projects

banner image:
Women and children gather together at an IDP (internally displaced persons) camp in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, following a massive earthquake that killed 80,000 people and displaced 3.5 million survivors, 2005. Photograph by Teru Kuwayama, prizewinner in
2009.
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