LANGE-TAYLOR PRIZE.The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University has announced the winners of this year's Lange-Taylor Prize. The tenth annual $10,000 award, intended to encourage collaboration in documentary work in the tradition of American photographer Dorothea Lange and writer and social scientist Paul Taylor
In their project "One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. ," Luster and Wright will document inmates of Louisiana prisons. Luster, as she has been doing since 1988, will collaborate with inmates to photograph them with tools, objects of their own making and messages of their own choosing. Wright's text will record their voices and examine the historical and political contexts of the prison system in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Each inmate receives a wallet-sized copy of each shot Luster takes. These prints, often sent home or traded with other inmates, allow prisoners to see themselves undistorted Adj. 1. undistorted - without alteration or misrepresentation; "his judgment was undistorted by emotion" artless, ingenuous - characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" as they usually seem in the prison-approved stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. mirrors. Luster has already photographed more than 700 inmates in three Louisiana prisons and given them some 10,000 prints. Luster, who resides in Monroe, LA, where she is co-director of The Folklife Folklife is an extension of, and often an alternate term for the subject of, folklore. The term gained usage in the United States in the 1960s from its use by such folklore scholars as Don Yoder and Warren Roberts, who wished to recognize that the study of folklore goes beyond oral Project, has exhibited her photographs in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Chicago, Kansas City and across the South. Her most recent exhibition was "Come Shining: The Spiritual South" at the Light Factory in Charlotte, NC. Wright, who was born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, is a professor of English and creative writing at Brown University and has published nine volumes of poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Field and Tri-Quarterly. Two honorable mentions were awarded in this year's Lange-Taylor competition. One was awarded to writer Heather Stephenson and photographer Zana Briski for "Sonagachi: Portraits of the Women and Children of Calcutta's Red-light District." The other was given to writer Peter Hessler and photographer Mark Leong for their project "Before the Dam: Life in the Yangtze River Valley." For guidelines and an application form for next year's Lange-Taylor Prize, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Lange-Taylor Prize Committee, Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham, NC 27705. The deadline is January 31, 2001. |
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