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Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize
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By Jeong Hee Yoo
Published on 02/8/2006
 
 

Name

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize

Description

The year 2006 marks the sixteenth 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.

Deadline

All required materials must be submitted under one cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January 31, 2006.

URL

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html

Prize

The amount of the award is $10,000.


Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize
 

Name

Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor documentary prize

Description

The year 2006 marks the sixteenth 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.

The prize is intended to fund collaborative work by a writer and a photographer in the formative or fieldwork stages of a documentary project. Submissions on any subject are welcome. Winners of the Lange-Taylor competition will have their work featured in Document, a periodical published by the Center for Documentary Studies, as well as in a virtual gallery on the CDS Web site. The amount of the award is $10,000.

Deadline

All required materials must be submitted under one cover during the month of January and postmarked no later than January 31, 2006.

URL

http://cds.aas.duke.edu/l-t/index.html

Prize

The amount of the award is $10,000.

Eligibility

Collaboration is essential to the nature of the work this award supports therefore, individual submissions will not be considered. More than two people may apply as long as one of the collaborators is a writer and one is a photographer working with black-and-white or color still photography. Individuals currently associated with the Center for Documentary Studies are not eligible for the prize.