Call for Submissions: Annual Book Prize

Written By Stephanie Burchett

Deadline: June 1, 2022

Photography Network seeks submissions for its annual book prize. The Photography Network book prize seeks to honor innovation in photography scholarship, expression, and dissemination. The book prize will be awarded to a scholarly monograph, edited volume, exhibition catalog, or photobook published between June 1, 2021 and June 1, 2022. Submissions must be in English and authored by current members of Photography Network. To submit a book for consideration, email your name, book title, and a brief description of the publication to Awards Coordinator Catherine Zuromskis at czpph@rit.edu with “PN book prize” in the subject line by June 1, 2022. You will be asked to supply 3 copies of the book (either in hardcopy or ebook) to members of the jury. Awards will be announced at the Photography Network conference in October 2022.

2021 Winners

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Carrie Mae Weems
books, carrie mae weems, mit press, 2021-PN Book Prize
Carrie Mae Weems
books, carrie mae weems, mit press, 2021-PN Book Prize

Editor: Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, with Christine Garnier

Contributors: Dawoud Bey, Jennifer Blessing, Kimberly Juanita Brown, Huey Copeland, Erina Duganne, Kimberly Drew, Coco Fusco, Thelma Golden, Katori Hall, bell hooks, Robin Kelsey, Thomas J. Lax, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Jeremy McCarter, Yxta Maya Murray, José Rivera, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Salamishah Tillet, Deborah Willis

In this October Files volume, essays and interviews explore the work of the influential American artist Carrie Mae Weems—her invention and originality, the formal dimensions of her practice, and her importance to the history of photography and contemporary art.

books, carrie mae weems, mit press, 2021-PN Book Prize
Documentary in Dispute:The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland
book, MIT PRess, RIC books, Sarah M. Miller, Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland, 2021-PN Book Prize
Documentary in Dispute:The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland
book, MIT PRess, RIC books, Sarah M. Miller, Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland, 2021-PN Book Prize

Author: Sarah M. Miller

The 1939 book Changing New York by Berenice Abbott, with text by Elizabeth McCausland, is a landmark of American documentary photography and the career-defining publication by one of modernism's most prominent photographers.

book, MIT PRess, RIC books, Sarah M. Miller, Documentary in Dispute: The Original Manuscript of Changing New York by Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland, 2021-PN Book Prize
Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art
book, University of Minnesota Press, Heather Diack, Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, 2021-PN Book Prize
Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art
book, University of Minnesota Press, Heather Diack, Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, 2021-PN Book Prize

Author: Heather Diack

Why do we continue to look to photographs for evidence despite our awareness of photography’s potential for duplicity? Documents of Doubt critically reassesses the truth claims surrounding photographs by looking at how conceptual artists creatively undermined them. Studying the unique relationship between photography and conceptual art practices in the United States during the social and political instability of the late 1960s, Heather Diack offers vital new perspectives on our “post-truth” world and the importance of suspending easy conclusions in contemporary art.

book, University of Minnesota Press, Heather Diack, Documents of Doubt: The Photographic Conditions of Conceptual Art, 2021-PN Book Prize
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
book, Yale University Press, Kristen Gresh, Katherine A. Bussard, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, 2021-PN Book Prize
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
book, Yale University Press, Kristen Gresh, Katherine A. Bussard, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, 2021-PN Book Prize

Editors: Katherine A. Bussard and Kristen Gresh

From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throughout its weekly run from 1936 to 1972, this volume examines how the magazine’s use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States.

book, Yale University Press, Kristen Gresh, Katherine A. Bussard, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, 2021-PN Book Prize
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