CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
About the Judges
Judges for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are among the most significant and innovative artists, curators, and writers in contemporary photography. Renowned photographer and writer Robert Adams was the prize's inaugural judge in 2002. Maria Morris Hambourg, founding curator of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, judged the second biennial competition (2004).
The judge for the third competition (2006) was Robert Frank, one of America's most important and influential photographers. Celebrated photographer Mary Ellen Mark was the judge of the fourth prize competition (2008). Groundbreaking color photographer William Eggleston is the judge for the 2010 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.
Robert
Adams is one of America's preeminent landscape photographers
whose work has been published, exhibited, and collected throughout
the world. His books of photographs include From the Missouri
West; Perfect Times, Perfect Places; and Summer Nights,
Walking; and his writings on photography are available in such
books as Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph.
Adams's work has been widely exhibited, including shows at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
(1979). He
has received the Deutsche
Börse Photography Prize,
as well as grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
MacArthur Foundation, and the Hasselblad Foundation.
The Yale Art Gallery has organized a new retrospective exhibition of
his work that opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery in fall 2010.
William Eggleston's groundbreaking
reinvention of color photography in the 1970s established him as one
of America's most original artists. His landmark solo show at the
Museum of Modern Art, curated by John Szarkowski, and the companion
book, William
Eggleston's Guide
(1976), established him as the "father of color photography."
Eggleston's other books and portfolios include Los
Alamos, Election Eve, 5 x 7, 2 ¼,
and William
Eggleston: Paris.
He has received awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Arts, the Hasselblad Foundation, and
PhotoEspaña. In 2004, he was awarded the Getty Images Lifetime
Achievement Award at the International Center of Photography. In
2008, the Whitney Museum of American Art, with Haus der Kunst in
Munich, organized the retrospective exhibition William
Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008.
Robert Frank,
one of America's most important
and influential photographers, will judge the 2006 CDS/Honickman
First Book Prize in Photography. Frank's complex and visionary
photographs of postwar America, as well as his later films and
videos, have greatly influenced the work of generations of artists.
His book The Americans (1958), an exploration of the United
States made with the support of the Guggenheim Foundation, marked a
turning point in photography. Frank's films include Pull My
Daisy, OK, End Here, and Me and My Brother. The
National Gallery of Art in Washington founded the Robert Frank
Collection in 1990 with Franks's donated negatives, contact sheets,
work and exhibition prints. Robert Frank has also received an
International Photography Award from the Hasselblad Foundation in
Sweden and a Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of
Photography in New York.
Maria
Morris Hambourg is the founding curator of the Department of
Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her career began at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she worked closely with
John Szarkowski in the Department of Prints and Photographs. She has
curated such exhibitions as Thomas Struth: 1977–2002; Richard
Avedon: Portraits; Walker Evans; The Waking Dream: Photography's
First Century; and Carleton Watkins, the Art of Perception.
Mary
Ellen Mark has received international
acclaim for her many books and exhibitions as well as her editorial
magazine work. Mark's portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses,
brothels in Bombay, and her award-winning essay on runaway children
in Seattle have confirmed her place as one of America's most
significant and expressive documentary photographers. Mark is a
contributing photographer to The New Yorker and her work has
been featured in LIFE, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling
Stone, and Vanity Fair. Her many honors include a Cornell
Capa Award from the International Center of Photography, an Infinity
Award for Journalism, a Guggenheim fellowship, the World Press Award
for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years; and the Matrix
Award for Outstanding Woman in the field of Film/Photography.