Congratulations to the 2021 Photography Network Awardees
PN Project Grant winners:
The Photography Network project grant is designed to help emerging scholars, curators, and artists with funds needed to complete a work in progress. This grant supports the publication of a book or article, or the mounting of an exhibition that cannot be completed in its most desirable form without a subsidy.
Emilie Boone
Assistant Professor at CUNY New York City College of Technology and the CUNY Graduate Center Program in Art History
A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography
Carl Fuldner
Dr. Fuldner is Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago
Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Survival of the Unlike: Photographs, A photobook by John Szarkowski
Josie Johnson
Capital Group Foundation Curatorial Fellow for Photography at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
“Pictures for the Taking: Margaret Bourke-White’s Soviet Photographs in Magazines”
PN Book Prize Awardees:
This prize seeks to honor innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and dissemination. For this award we considered scholarly monographs, edited volumes, exhibition catalogs, and photobooks published between January 1, 2020 and June 1, 2021.
Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, by Heather Diack, published by University of Minnesota Press, 2020
Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland, by Sarah M. Miller, published by Ryerson Image Centre Books with MIT Press, 2020
Carrie Mae Weems, OCTOBER Files, edited by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis with Christine Garnier, published by MIT Press, 2021
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography, edited by Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh, published by Princeton University Art Museum, distributed by Yale University Press, 2020
Jury:
Kate Palmer Albers, Associate Professor of Art History, Whitter College
Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Catherine Zuromskis, Associate Professor of Photography and Art History, Rochester Institute of Technology