Ukrainian Journalist Mstyslav Chernov Awarded IBC2024 International Honour for Excellence

IBC2024 Awards International Honour for Excellence to Ukrainian Journalist Mstyslav Chernov

IBC today announces that the IBC2024 International Honour for Excellence (IHFE), its most prestigious award, will be conferred on Ukraine’s MSTYSLAV CHERNOV for his work as a video journalist and his groundbreaking film 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL. The award recognises the resolve and skill as filmmaker demonstrated by Chernov in uncovering the unvarnished truth that he and his Associated Press (AP) team witnessed on the ground as they covered the siege of the Ukrainian city by Russian forces in early 2022. The award will be presented at the IBC Innovation Awards ceremony at 18.30 CEST on Sunday, 15 September at the RAI Amsterdam.

A multi-award-winning journalist and President of the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPF), Mstyslav Chernov documented the siege in Mariupol as one of the last remaining international media representatives in the city. Video materials from his work became the basis of 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, Mstyslav Chernov’s first feature film. Produced with the support of AP and the PBS investigative documentary series Frontline, the film offers a harrowing example of the importance of video in fighting back against news disinformation in an era of false reports and deep fakes.

Michael Crimp, IBC’s Chief Executive Officer, said: “People are at the heart of our industry, which exists to support those who want to speak to the world. In honouring Mstyslav Chernov with this year’s IHFE for his work as a war correspondent, video journalist and filmmaker, we are recognising the courage, creativity, skill and determination he has shown in capturing some of the most affecting stories we have seen in the last few years. At a time when it is critical to produce video that reveals the reality of conflicts around the world and challenges the fake news and disinformation being disseminated, Mstyslav and the teams he works with exemplify integrity and the best in our industry.”

Mstyslav Chernov has covered the Russian invasion in Ukraine, conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Nagorno-Karabakh, and Afghanistan during the return of Taliban rule after US withdrawal. In covering the siege of Mariupol, video of the conflict was periodically sent to the AP editorial office from the only place there was still an online connection – under the stairs near the crushed grocery store – but much of the footage Mstyslav Chernov shot could not be sent online and was carried out by the AP team though the humanitarian corridor. 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL draws on Chernov’s daily news dispatches and additional footage he shot to provide a vivid account of civilians caught in the siege and a window into what it’s like to report from a conflict zone.

Mstyslav Chernov and the team of journalists working with him – Evgeniy Maloletka, Vasilisa Stepanenko, and Lori Hinnant – were awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for their courageous reporting from the besieged city. The film itself – written, directed and narrated by Chernov – has received more than 20 awards, including the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, Best Documentary at the British Film and Television Academy (BAFTA) Awards, and the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023.

IBC

www.ibc.org

Photojournalist Harry Benson Exhibition @ Southampton Arts Center -SAC - A Moment in Time: Iconic Images by Harry Benson - Curated by Sally Martin Katz

A Moment in Time

Iconic Images by Harry Benson

Southampton Arts Center

Opening May 6, 2023

Southampton Arts Center (SAC) presents the second exhibition of its 10th anniversary year. A Moment in Time: Iconic Images by Harry Benson, curated by Sally Martin Katz, is a presentation of the photographer’s impressive collection of images documenting civil rights figures, politicians, musicians, celebrities, and athletes. Harry Benson’s iconic work is an embodiment of some of the most significant moments captured in the 20th and 21st centuries. 

“Harry Benson has captured some of the most iconic moments in history in a way that tells a compelling story,” shares SAC executive director Christina Mossaides Strassfield. “The exhibition is about so much more than photography — it’s about the man behind the camera, his experiences with some of the most notable people, places, and events in a generation. Harry Benson is a true documentarian, and we’re honored to present his story and his work.”

An award-winning Scottish photojournalist, HARRY BENSON began his career at the weekly newspaper Hamilton Advertiser before moving to the Daily Sketch after his infamous and exclusive interviews in prison with Scottish mass murderer Peter Manual. In 1964, he traveled to the United States with the Beatles, and never looked back. He was under contract with LIFE magazine for 30 years, and has photographed for other major magazines including TIME, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, French Vogue, Quest, Paris Match, Forbes, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, People, and The London Sunday Times Magazine.

“I am looking forward to having my photographs at the esteemed Southampton Arts Center,” shares Harry Benson. “It is a challenge to choose photographs from my 75-year career, which hopefully will surprise, delight, and engage the viewer, and lead to animated discussions of memorable times past. It is a challenge I accept.”

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to curate an exhibition of a photographer whose work I have long admired and who is a legendary figure within the photography world,” shares Sally Martin Katz. “Benson’s work is notable for his ability to be at the right place at the right time and to create images that capture the ethos of their era. His photographs provide insight into the watershed events of his lifetime and into the characters of the people who have shaped our culture and our history.”

SOUTHAMPTON ARTS CENTER

25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, New York 11968

southamptonartscenter.org

Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field @ National Museum of the American Indian, New York - Donovan Quintero, Tailyr Irvine, Russel Albert Daniels

Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field

National Museum of the American Indian, New York

Through March 12, 2023

National Museum of the American Indian, New York

Photo courtesy of the Museum

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York presents “Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field,” an exhibition of photo essays by three Indigenous photojournalists. “Developing Stories” was originally expected to open at the museum in March 2020 and a version of it exists as an online exhibition. 

“Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field” is a series of photo essays created by Native photojournalists in collaboration with the National Museum of the American Indian. Each photographer explores an issue that is of deep personal interest and touches the lives of Native people in a specific community. The essays feature compelling photography and thought-provoking insights into contemporary Native life and, in so doing, nuanced perspectives on American experiences that are largely invisible to mainstream society.

“Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field” is curated by Cecile R. Ganteaume. Collaborators Tristan Ahtone (Kiowa), Editor at Large at Grist and John Smock, director of photojournalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, provided editorial and technical expertise to the museum and photojournalists throughout the development of each photo essay.

Photo Essays 

Russel Albert Daniels (Diné descent and Ho-Chunk descent), “The Genízaro Pueblo of Abiquiú.” Daniels brings attention to a nearly 300-year-old community in New Mexico that was born out of violence and slavery. In this essay, he examines how, through annual festivals and feasts and their relationship to the land, Genízaros—detribalized descendants of freed Native American slaves—have maintained their sense of history and identity to the present day.

Tailyr Irvine (Salish and Kootenai), “Reservation Mathematics: Navigating Love in Native America.” Irvine examines the legacy of U.S. government regulations affecting Native Americans’ most personal decisions. Specifically, she focuses on the challenge blood quantum requirements (the amount of tribal affiliation in a person’s ancestry) pose for young Native American couples who want children and want them enrolled in their tribe. In early 1900s, the U.S. government began imposing this system on tribes as a means of defining and limiting citizenship. While some tribes still use this method for determining eligibility for tribal enrollment, other Native nations use documentation of a person’s descent from an enrollee on a designated tribal roll or census records.

Donovan Quintero (Diné), “The COVID-19 Outbreak in the Navajo Nation.” Photographer and journalist for the Navajo Times, Quintero explores how the pandemic affected the everyday lives of the Diné over the course of a year. The images highlight the resiliency of the Diné and the critical roles played by healthcare workers, police, council members, and unsung heroes of the pandemic.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, One Bowling Green, New York, NY 10004

americanindian.si.edu

3/11/2022 - 12/3/2023

Ernest Withers @ Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles - I’ll Take You There + Book

Ernest Withers: I’ll Take You There

Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

June 24 - July 31, 2021

The Fahey/Klein gallery presents “Ernest Withers: I’ll Take You There”, an exhibition hosted in conjunction with his recently published book, “The Revolution in Black and White” (CityFiles Press). This exhibition and publication are a record of African American life in the South during the mid-20th century. Ernest Withers’s photographs of Beale Street, family life in Memphis, the rise of Rock ‘n’ Roll and R&B, and the Civil Rights movement capture a time of radical change.

ERNEST C. WITHERS

Revolution in Black and White

Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest C. Withers

By Richard Cahan and Michael Williams

Foreword by Andrew Young

Hardcover: 268 pages; 157 gsm paper + flood varnish over duotone images

ISBN-13: 978-0991541843

© CityFiles Press

“Photography is a collection of memories. One who is trained in photography knows that. Instinctively, people who have an occupation know what they ought to do. You call the fireman to put out the fire; you call the police to solve a police problem; and people who are news people and journalists are collectors and recorders of present evidence, which after a given length of time—days, months, years becomes history.” Ernest C. Withers

Ernest C. Withers documented a history that still resonates today, capturing the momentous, and often dangerous, upheaval of America’s civil rights movement across the South from the late 1940’s through the 1960’s. Apart from documenting those fighting for racial justice and equity, Withers gained acclaim by capturing the African American experience, creating a singular record of day-to-day life in an effort to better illustrate and understand life in the South during this crucial era. His vast archive also includes images of famed Memphians who brought Soul, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Blues into the white, mainstream music scene. From blues to baseball, high school proms and football games to funerals and marches, and moments both mundane and historic, Ernest Withers was there, camera in hand. The confidence and skill he developed in the juke joints of Beale Street and on assignment for newspapers served him well when history happened. He was fearless in the face of intimidation, risking life and limb to get the shot.

Dr. Ernest C. Withers, Sr. (1922 – 2007) a native Memphian, is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist. His photographs have been published extensively in the New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Life, Jet, and Ebony. His well-known images comprise an unequaled time capsule of the heartland of Mid-Century America. Withers’s images are in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian and other esteemed institutions.

FAHEY / KLEIN GALLERY

148 North La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036

www.faheykleingallery.com

Alfred Eisenstaedt @ Robert Mann Gallery, NYC - Portraits of the Past

Alfred Eisenstaedt: Portraits of the Past
Robert Mann Gallery, New York
March 7 - April 27, 2019

Robert Mann Gallery presents a collection of iconic works by the “father of photojournalism,” Alfred Eisenstaedt. The German-born American photographer, best known for his candid black-and-white photographs of celebrities, politicians, and captivating street scenes, captured life, movement and emotion in a strong yet natural manner. 

Alfred Eisenstaedt was born 1898 in Dirschau, West Prussia. In 1906 his family moved to Berlin where he studied music, received his first camera, an Eastman Kodak Number Three, and used his parents bathroom for a makeshift dark room. Alfred Eisenstaedt was drafted into the German army after the outbreak of WW1 and served at the front lines in Flanders until April 1918, enemy fire crippled both his legs, yet thankfully his life was spared. After the war, he worked as a salesman, but continually found success with assignments as a freelance photographer. His first major mission was covering Thomas Mann accepting the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929. Alfred Eisenstaedt came under the influence of photographer Erich Salomon and his work regularly found its way into Die Dame, Berliner Illustrierte, The Graphic, The London Illustrated News and many other magazines.

In 1935, Alfred Eisenstaedt decided to emigrate to the United States, as magazines in Germany began to shutdown with the rise of Hitler. He settled in New York where he became one of the first four photographers hired by LIFE Magazine. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s coverage of Hollywood in the 1930’s is some of his most quintessential work, photographing stars such as Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn and Sophia Loren, who is known to be one of his favorite subjects. He photographed Marilyn Monroe on a small patio behind her home in Hollywood in 1953, capturing her in Rembrandt inspired light that beautifully emphasized the unparalleled Marilyn mystique—femininity, naiveté and sexuality.

“In a photograph a person’s eyes tell much, sometimes they tell all.” - Alfred Eisenstaedt

Along with capturing portraits of great politicians and movie stars, Alfred Eisenstaedt was just as intrigued to set his keen eye on the human element. He found magic in the faces of Parisian children exploding with shrieks of delight at the puppet theater in the Tuileries, Paris in 1963. Enthralled in the scene, the children didn’t even notice Alfred Eisenstaedt. He easily blended in with the crowd to find those initial moments of reactions and then made various enlargements and crops in order to construct a well balanced composition and highlight the essence of the image. Sometimes all it took was one shot. Alfred Eisenstaedt’s work created memorable documents of his era both historically and aesthetically, such as one of the iconic images of the 20th century - a couple kissing on VJ Day in Times Square. 

Alfred Eisenstaedt completed over 2,500 assignments in his career and his photographs appeared on 92 covers of LIFE. His photographs have been exhibited and collected by many prestigious institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Philadelphia College of Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York. He was the recipient of numerous awards, among them the National Medal of the Arts which he received from President George Bush in 1989 in a ceremony on the White House lawn. Eisenstaedt died on August 23, 1995 in Oak Bluffs, MA.

ROBERT MANN GALLERY
14 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10075
www.robertmann.com

‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’: New York City, 1980-2000 @ Bronx Documentary Center

‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’: New York City, 1980-2000
Bronx Documentary Center
January 14 - March 5, 2017

Photographers: Nina Berman, Bill Biggart, Donna Binder, Maximo Colon, Donna DeCesare, Ricky Flores, Frank Fournier, David Gonzalez, Lori Grinker, James Hamilton, Meg Handler, Lisa Kahane, Mike Kamber, Gabe Kirchheimer, Carolina Kroon, Corky Lee, Meryl Levin, Andrew Lichtenstein, Tracey Litt, Dona Ann McAdams, Thomas McGovern, Tomas Muscionico, Marilyn Nance, Edwin Pagán, Brian Palmer, Clayton Patterson, Mark Peterson, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Sylvia Plachy, Alon Reininger, Richard Renaldi, Clarence Elie-Rivera, Joseph Rodriguez, Linda Rosier, Q. Kyujiro Q. Sakamaki, Richard Sandler, Catherine Smith and Les Stone.

ANDREW LICHTENSTEIN

Squatters attempt to defend their building by blocking the street 

with overturned cars and trash before an expected attack 

by the police on East 13th Street, 1995 

© Andrew Lichtenstein - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

JAMES HAMILTON

Tompkins Square Park riot, New York City, 1988 

© James Hamilton - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

Featuring work by thirty seven independent photojournalists, this exhibit captures ordinary New Yorkers as they rallied, rioted, marched, and demonstrated. These stunning images document historic moments of violent confrontation such as the Tompkins Square Park and Crown Heights Riots and as well as organized protests involving non-violent civil disobedience and creative street theater. Collectively, these photographs, which have never before been exhibited together, chronicle New York’s history from 1980-2000. During these two decades of swift economic and demographic change, residents grappled with social issues including race relations, police brutality, housing and gentrification, AIDS and gay and lesbian rights, reproductive rights, U.S. foreign policy and military actions, art and the culture wars, environmental and animal rights issues, and education and labor relations.

RICKY FLORES

Day of Outrage demonstration at the Jay Street-Borough Hall 

subway station following the Howard Beach verdict on

December 21, 1987 in which three defendants were found 

guilty of manslaughter in the death of Michael Griffith who was

beaten and chased by a white mob onto a highway where 

he was struck by a car 

© Ricky Flores - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

SANDRA LEE PHIPPS

Pro-choice rally. NYC 1992 

© Sandra Lee Phipps - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

DONNA BINDER

ACT UP die-in at the LBGT Pride Parade on 5th Avenue. June, 1991 

© Donna Binder - Courtesy of the photographer and the BDC

The exhibit is co-curated by MEG HANDLER, former photo editor of The Village Voice, historian TAMAR CARROLL, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty and Feminist Activism, and  MICHAEL KAMBER, founder of the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC). The exhibit was designed and produced by the BDC’s Cynthia Rivera and Bianca Farrow.

THE BRONX DOCUMENTARY CENTER
614 Courtlandt Avenue, Bronx, NY 10451
bronxdoc.org

Robin Hammond Expo Photos Zimbabwe : Le nom de vos plaies sera silence

Robin Hammond : Le nom de vos plaies sera silence 
Prix Carmignac Gestion du photojournalisme
Ecole des Beaux-arts de Paris 
9 novembre - 9 décembre 2012

Pour aller d'emblée à l'essentiel à propos de Robin Hammond, c'est aujourd'hui l'un des plus grands photo-journalistes humanistes, plaçant la photographie au service de la défense des droits de l'homme et de la femme. Lauréat de la 3e édition du Prix Carmignac pour le photojournalisme, une exposition présentant des photographies sur son long reportage au Zimbabwe lui est consacrée à la l'Ecole des Beaux Arts à Paris (Chapelle des Petits-Augustins) du 9 novembre au 9 décembre 2012. Son travail sur le Zimbabwe fait l'objet d'un livre publié par les Editions Actes Sud. 

Photo © Robin Hammond, Agence Panos 

pour le Prix Carmignac Gestion du Photojournalisme 

Photo © Robin Hammond, Agence Panos 

pour le Prix Carmignac Gestion du Photojournalisme

Robin Hammond a choisi d’illustrer la crise humanitaire qui touche le Zimbabwe aujourd’hui plongé dans le chaos et la misère. Il s'était rendu dans ce pays d'Afrique en 2007 et 2008 au cours de nombreuses missions pour son travail de photo-journaliste. Ces deux années lui ont permis de prendre la mesure du désastre humain que subissait les Zimbabwéens. La violence du régime s'est accompagnée d'une grave crise économique, sociale et sanitaire. Symbole de la situation désastreuse du pays, la population du Zimbabwe, et notamment celle vivant dans sa capitale Harare, était confrontée fin 2008 à la pire épidémie de choléra que l'Afrique ait connue depuis 15 ans. Le travail qu'il présente aujourd'hui repose sur un reportage au Zimbabwe effectué de décembre 2011 à mai 2012, dans des conditions d’une extrême difficulté et au péril de sa propre vie. Le photographe a passé 26 jours en prisons avant d'être déporté et fiché comme "immigrant interdit". Les photographies présentées par Robin Hammond nous montre l'existence quotidienne des Zimbawéens, marquée par la pauvreté et la nécessité de tenter de survivre malgré tout. Le journaliste a pu photographier d'anciens camps de torture, témoins des années de terreur au Zimbabwe depuis les années 2000, où sont mort de nombreux Zimbabwéens. Robin Hammond présente également des portraits de survivants à la purge contre toute opposition effectuée par la régime de Mugabe. Du fait des conditions dangereuses et afin d'éviter de ses faire repérer par les forces de police, une partie des photos ont été prisent par Robin Hammond à partir de sa voiture.

ROBIN HAMMOND

Photo © Robin Hammond, Agence Panos 

pour le Prix Carmignac Gestion du Photojournalisme

ROBIN HAMMOND

Robin Hammond, âgé de 37 ans, est un photojournaliste free-lance originaire de Nouvelle-Zélande et membre de l’agence Panos depuis 2007. Il a eu l’occasion de se rendre dans plus de 50 pays depuis le début de sa carrière, la plupart du temps pour rendre compte des dramatiques conditions de vie des hommes à travers le monde ou du non-respect de notre planète. Après avoir habité au Japon, au Royaume-Uni et en Afrique du Sud, Robin Hammond réside actuellement à Paris. Il collabore à de nombreux titres de presse à l’international: National Geographic, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Observer Magazine, El Semenal, Corriere della Sera, Courrier International, Paris Match. Il se met aussi régulièrement au service de différentes organisations non gouvernementales. Les photographies réalisées par Robin Hammond, au Zimbabwe, dans d'autres pays de l'Afrique Sub-saharienne et à travers le monde ont contribués à faire connaître au grand public des atteintes aux droits de l'homme et à son environnement. L'excellence de son travail lui a valu plusieurs prix ses dernières années, parmi lesquels : Prix AICA (2009), International Photography Awards (2009 et 2011) notamment pour ses photographies sur le Choléra au Zimbawe fin 2008, une de ses photographies Zimbabwean Miner in Mozambique a été sélectionnée par le magazine Life parmi les Photos de l'année 2010, et surtout la reconnaissance de son engagement de photographe en faveur des droits de l'homme lui ont valu plusieurs Prix du reportage humanitaire d'Amnesty International en 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 et 2012. Robin Hammond a été désigné lauréat de la troisième édition du Prix Carmignac Gestion du photojournalisme, le 4 novembre 2011, mais son identité a été tenue secrète pour des raisons de sécurité jusqu'à la fin de son reportage au Zimbabwe. Deux autres finalistes avient été désigné à l'issue d'un premier tour de scrutin du jury présidé par la photographe Susan Meiselas, présidente de la Fondation Magnum à New York : le photographe franco-suisse Mickael Zumstein et l’italien Paolo Pellegrin, tous les deux reconnus pour la qualité de leurs photographies.

A propos du le Prix Carmignac Gestion du photojournalisme, Edouard Carmignac, souligne que :

Face à [des] situations d’urgence et d’extrême détresse humaine, la Fondation Carmignac continue à donner aux témoins essentiels de notre monde contemporain que sont les photo-journalistes les moyens d’accomplir un travail de terrain, clairement inscrit dans la tradition humaniste et l’esprit universaliste. Avec ce prix, la Fondation Carmignac veut soutenir chaque année ceux qui se placent aux avant-postes de l’évènement et défendent, souvent au péril de leur vie, les valeurs de courage et d’indépendance, de transparence et de partage qui nous sont chères. 

Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts
Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
14, Rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris
Horaires de l'exposition : 11h-19h, tous les jours sauf les dimanche et lundi
Entrée libre

Site internet de la Fondation Carmignac : www.fondation-carmignac-gestion.com

Site internet de l'agence Panos : www.panos.co.uk

Lucas Dolega Photojournalism Award in homage to the photographer

First edition of the “Prix Lucas Dolega”, new annual Lucas Dolega International Award for photojournalists, organised by the association created to pay tribute to the young photographer died this year.

In Tunis, on January 17th 2011, the photographer Lucas Dolega (Loucas Von Zabiensky-Mebrouk) died, while covering the ‘Jasmine Revolution’. He was 32 years old. In order to pay tribute to Lucas Dolega, and through him, to all the photojournalists who risk their lives for the freedom of information, his family, close relations and friends decided to create the Association Lucas Dolega, and to launch an Award.

Designed to support photographers who sometimes work under difficult conditions in dangerous areas, this award aims to reward a photographer who, through his or her personal commitment, involvement in the field, his or her capacity to take a stand, as well as the quality of his or her work, will have demonstrated their commitment to the freedom of information.

Participants will have to present a report on a conflict (civil or military wars, riots, attacks or public demonstrations), a revolution, a natural disaster, or their consequences on civilians.

“Prix Photographique Lucas Dolega” (Lucas Dolega Photography Award). Photo © LUCAS DOLEGA. This picture was taken by the photographer in Tunis on January 14, 2011.

The Lucas Dolega Award is organised in partnership with the Mairie de Paris, Polka Magazine and with the support of Reporters sans Frontières, the Lucas Dolega Award will reward one photographer every year. The winner will receive an endowment by Nikon of 10.000 Euros, and will have their work displayed at an exhibition in Paris and published in the RSF album. Furthermore, the winner will have part or all his report published in an issue of Polka Magazine, and will be offered the production of another story by Polka Magazine.

Closing of candidatures, November 10th 2011

The complete rules of the Award and the application form are available for downloading on the site of the Lucas Dolega Award:
www.prixlucasdolega.org

David Rubinger, Israel Through My Lens

The Stirring Autobiography of Israel’s Preeminent Photojournalist

(c) David Rubinger / Abbeville Press, 2008

"As a photographer, David Rubinger has captured some of the most powerful images of his time. No one has done a better job of showing the history of Israel in all its glory and pain. The stories behind those photographs and the people he has met are utterly captivating, but as it turns out, no story is more fascinating—or more poignant—than that of his own life.” — Jim Kelly, Managing Editor of Time, Inc. Today, photojournalist DAVID RUBINGER stands at the peak of his profession. A winner of the Israel Prize for services to the media and a fixture on the masthead of Time magazine, he is the only photographer whose work is on permanent display at the Knesset, Israel’s legislature. ISRAEL THROUGH MY LENS: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist is the illustrated autobiography of this accomplished photojournalist, written in a conversational and immediate tone that captures the drama of his life and times. David Rubinger and his coauthor Ruth Corman, a British photographer and curator, report his gripping life story in this fascinating volume, which in many ways reflects the history of Israel that he has recorded so faithfully with his camera. Born in Vienna in 1924, he emigrated to British Palestine in 1939 and developed a passion for photography while serving in the British army’s Jewish Brigade. After fighting in Israel’s War of Independence, he became a professional news photographer, reporting on each of his young nation’s subsequent wars from the front lines, first for the Israeli media and later as a correspondent for Time–Life. With a foreword by Shimon Peres, current president and former prime minister of Israel, ISRAEL THROUGH MY LENS comprises a chronological narrative of Rubinger’s life and the stories he covered. Rubinger has photographed all of Israel’s leaders, many of whom have allowed him a remarkable degree of access to their lives. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said, “I trust Rubinger even though I know he doesn’t vote for me.” But Rubinger has not confined his reporting to war and politics; by photographing the successive waves of Jewish immigrants from Europe, the Arab world, Russia, and Ethiopia, he has also created a valuable record of Israel’s transformation from a country of six hundred thousand to one of seven million. In recounting his eventful career, Rubinger proves himself a gifted raconteur, sharing anecdotes of the many personalities he has photographed and telling the stories behind his most famous pictures, many of which are reproduced here at full-page size. The 130 photographs in the book include not only his best news photos but also hitherto unpublished shots from his family album that let us see behind the scenes of a photojournalist’s work. With ISRAEL THROUGH MY LENS’s 7-by-10 inch trim, the book is small enough to carry with you and read, but big enough to show off Rubinger’s pictures to good effect. Over the course of Rubinger’s career, which he spent mostly with Time and Life magazines, he personally witnessed nearly every important event in his country’s history, from the Suez Crisis to the Intifadas, and knew all of its leaders, from David Ben-Gurion to Ehud Olmert. ISRAEL THROUGH MY LENS is as much a firsthand account of Israel’s history as it is a memoir of an important journalist’s career, and its publication should be welcomed by everyone with an interest in photojournalism or the history of Israel. RUTH CORMAN, the coauthor, is a London-based photographer, art consultant, and curator, as well as the former director of the British Israel Arts Foundation. She has organized many exhibitions in Britain and Israel, including two shows of David Rubinger’s photography. Table of Contents from Israel through My Lens, by David Rubinger with Ruth Corman Foreword by Shimon Peres 1. How It All Began 2. The Early Years in Europe 3. Leaving for Eretz 4. A Soldier for King George 5. The Marriage 6. My First Love Affair—with the Camera 7. Married Life and Becoming an Israeli 8. After the War of Independence 9. My Career Begins 10. Haolam Hazeh 11. Home Life 12. Yedioth Ahronoth 13. Ben-Gurion 14. Immigration 15. My Beginning with Time-Life 16. The Sinai War 17. Taking to the Skies 18. Papal Visits 19. Teddy Kollek 20. The Six Day War and After 21. The War of Attrition 22. The Yom Kippur War 23. Sadat and Begin 24. Air Power Stories 25. Becoming an Austrian Citizen—Again 26. Immigration from Russia and Ethiopia 27. Football and the Lebanon War 28. Rubber Bullet 29. The Second Intifada and the Settlements 30. Some Special People 31. Travels Abroad with My Camera 32. My Life in the Movies 33. Influences on My Career 34. My Archives 35. House and Home 36. My Marriage to Anni 37. The Evening of My Life 38. The Renaissance Afterword and Acknowledgments by Ruth Corman Chronology Index ISRAEL THROUGH MY LENS: Sixty Years as a Photojournalist By David Rubinger with Ruth Corman Foreword by Shimon Peres Abbeville Press, New York January 2008 336 pages - 130 illustrations, 43 in full color $35.00 cloth ISBN 978-0-7892-0928-3 Also published by Abbeville Press: IN A DESERT LAND Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan Text and photography by Neil Folberg Abbeville Press, New York 204 pages - 200 full-color illustrations $49.95 cloth ISBN 978-0-7892-0125-6 PHOTOJOURNALISM 1855 TO THE PRESENT: EDITOR’S CHOICE By Reuel Golden Abbeville Press, New York 256 pages - 250 illustrations, 64 in full color $45.00 hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7892-0895-8 Last modified: September 24, 2009

Paul Goldman Photographs of the Birth of Israel

Photography Exhibition Celebrates Israel 's 60th Anniversary - “To Return to the Land…” Paul Goldman’s Photographs of the Birth of Israel at the Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

Hungarian-born photojournalist Paul Goldman fled to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1940, where he chronicled the events leading up to the foundation of the State of Israel. Goldman’s photos of life before statehood, during the War of Independence, and the ingathering of dispersed Jews are complemented by rich memories of individuals who lived through those same events. Images and words together tell stories of the birth of Israel through the lenses of photographic and human memory. From Tel Aviv streetscapes to the bombing of the King David Hotel, from street vendors to Prime Ministers; both the extraordinary and everyday document this monumental story.

While Goldman was one of only a few photojournalists working in the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1940s, he remains largely unknown, mostly because of the practice at the time of not including photo credits in newspapers. His work was beautifully composed and restrained, as Jewish Week writes, “This supreme sensitivity makes Goldman’s photographs a small miracle in today’s world of extreme closeups and telephoto lenses, and they make for interesting, almost prosaic constructions, rich with tensions between public and private.”

“We could think of no better way to honor the birth of the State of Israel than by showing the powerful images of its struggle and its triumphs,” Museum director Dr. David G. Marwell said. “The title of this exhibition is taken from the words of the Israeli national anthem, Hatikva, and captures the fervent dream of the Jewish people to have their own state.”

Highlights of the exhibition include more than 35 images culled from a collection of negatives that lived in a shoebox until they were rediscovered in recent years. The photos are on loan to the Museum from the collection of Spencer M. Partrich. The exhibition will feature such inspiring images as the one of future Israelis toiling the land of a Kibbutz in 1943; and heartbreaking images such as one of Holocaust survivors arriving at a detention camp in 1945.

Goldman, born in 1900, fled Budapest in 1940 to escape the spreading threat of Nazism. He worked as a freelance photographer for local newspapers and international news services during the 1940s and 1950s. His role as a member of the British Army, and later as a confidant to important Israeli leaders, provided him with privileged access and a frontrow view to Israel’s growing pains. Unfortunately, Goldman’s eyesight failed him in the early 1960s — he died penniless at the age of 86 in Israel. Sadly, he never was able to see Israel’s physical beauty beyond her adolescence.

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Photographer David Douglas Duncan Archive at Ransom Center, Austin, Texas

Photographer David Douglas Duncan Archive

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin

The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin announces the acquisition of the award-winning photographer David Douglas Duncan's world-renowned archive. The Ransom Center archive captures the career of one of America's great photographers, containing over sixty years of photographs, negatives, correspondence, albums, manuscripts, equipment, and personal memorabilia. "Acquiring David Douglas Duncan's prestigious archive brings the Ransom Center's overview of photojournalism's impact into the modern age," noted Roy Flukinger, curator of the Center's photography collection.

David Douglas Duncan: "Tough, Audacious, and Original"

Born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1916, David Douglas Duncan began his career as a photojournalist at the age of 18. While a student at the University of Arizona majoring in archaeology, he snapped the fleeing victims of an early-morning hotel fire using a 39-cent camera, a gift from his younger sister. He was later surprised to learn that one frantic guest captured on his film was America's Public Enemy No. 1, the infamous John Dillinger.

From this serendipitous beginning, David Douglas Duncan went on to become one the world's greatest wartime photographers, capturing highly acclaimed and poignant images in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. Of his combat photography, Duncan himself wrote, "I wanted to show the way men live and die when they know death is among them."

Commissioned as a U.S. Marine Second Lieutenant in 1943, David Douglas Duncan earned numerous decorations for the aerial photographs he boldly snapped from the belly of a P-38 fighter plane. David Douglas Duncan later linked up with Fijian guerrillas, fighting the Japanese from behind enemy lines, and was in China before Peking fell to the Communists.

As a civilian photographer for LIFE magazine, David Douglas Duncan rejoined the Marines in Korea, photographing nameless battles, the liberation of Seoul, and the Marines' harrowing Christmas retreat from the Yalu River. Through Duncan's stark black-and-white photographs, the epic saga of the "Forgotten War" came alive, piercing America's collective memory. Today, that memory remains vital, due largely to what Edward Steichen, former Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, called "the greatest photographic document ever produced showing men at war."

Already retired from the military with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, David Douglas Duncan again rejoined the Marines in Vietnam, most notably photographing the siege of Khe Sanh. In 1968, Duncan flew straight from the besieged outpost to hand deliver the negatives that were to comprise I Protest!, his broadside denunciation of the war.

While perhaps most known for his wartime photographs, David Douglas Duncan has aimed his camera at a wide-range of subjects. He provided the first coverage penetrating the Iron Curtain and, with the assistance of Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev, spent three years photographing Russia's Kremlin treasures. His intimate friendship with Pablo Picasso and his family produced one of the most exclusive and revealing portraits of the artist and his world. Seven books by Duncan capture these insights including the best seller Picasso's Picassos (1961).

In 1972, David Douglas Duncan set a new standard in photographic achievement, becoming the first photographer to hold a one-person exhibition at New York's prestigious Whitney Museum of Art. His career, aptly described by the esteemed foreign corespondent John Gunther as "tough, audacious, and original," produced a number of legendary images that the Ransom Center will proudly preserve for scholarship, public viewing, and posterity.

The David Douglas Duncan Archive at the Ransom Center

The Ransom Center's collection of David Douglas Duncan's work is expansive and unique. It contains all of Duncan's wartime photos and negatives, including his award-winning coverage of both the Korean and Vietnam wars. In addition, the collection includes the total body of writing, editing, and design work Duncan undertook to produce his war trilogy--This is War! (1951), I Protest! (1961), and War Without Heroes (1970)--and the production materials (correspondence, contracts, text, dummies, layouts, and proofs) for each of Duncan's twenty-one books. The collection also houses extensive correspondence between Duncan and his family and friends, editors at LIFE, and numerous notables of the twentieth century.

The David Douglas Duncan Endowment for Photojournalism

After the Ransom Center attained his archive, David Douglas Duncan, in a gesture characteristic of his legendary individuality, returned the initial purchase fee to establish an endowment in his name. The David Douglas Duncan Endowment, devoted to enhancing the study of photojournalism, will support exhibitions, public events, research, and new acquisitions at the Ransom Center. In partnership with related academic departments, the Center will seek to maximize the educational and public benefit of these activities. With this goal in mind, the Duncan Endowment's first exhibition is currently being planned in conjunction with the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library at the University of Texas. The exhibition, scheduled to open in the first week of March, 1999, will feature the works of the endowment's creator, David Douglas Duncan.

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