Women
In Photography International Distinguished Photographer's Award
Presented in collaboration with the
LUCIE AWARDS - NYC
, Oct. 2004
Sylvia
Plachy
The Awards Backstage, page 1
The Presentation, page 2
Adrien Brody Video Clip - page 3
The Private Party, page 4
Full list of winners and presenters
S
Y L V I A P L A C H Y
"My
father often walked ahead alone, deep in thought, his state of mind
one could only guess at. I, on the other hand, have always liked to
linger and watch unseen, to take my pictures without confrontation,
to look at backs and imagine what's inside."
F O R I
M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E
SYLVIA PLACHY HONORED BY WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL AT THE
2ND ANNUAL LUCIE AWARDS PRESENTATION IN NEW YORK CITY, October 18, 2004
AT AMERICAN AIRLINES THEATRE
Contact: WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL
(323) 462-1444
Los Angeles, CA. September 14, 2004 - Women In Photography International
(WIPI), a non-profit organization established in 1981, is proud to announce
Sylvia Plachy as the winner of its Distinguished Photographer Award
2004. Together with International Photography Awards (IPA) and its Lucie
Awards, WIPI bestows this high honor annually to women who exemplify
the highest standards and dedication to the art of photography.
Past honorees have included Eve Arnold (1983), Ruth Bernhard (1984),
Judy Dater (1985), Marion Post-Wolcott (1986), Linda McCartney (1987),
Mary Ellen Mark (1988), Ruth Orkin (1989), Joyce Tenneson (1990), Berenice
Abbott (1991), Grace Robertson (1992), and last year Annie Leibovitz.
To learn more about the organization, go to www.womeninphotography.org
"Sylvia joins a list of women who are held in high esteem for their
powerful and memorable images," said Jean Ferro, Photo Artist and
WIPI President. “Sylvia’s approach is daring, soulful and
honest, a lasting inspiration to women working in photography today,”
she added.
Plachy, a Hungarian-born photographer,immigrated to the United States
with her parents in 1958, started photographing in 1964 and over the
next forty years by recording the visual character of the city along
with its diverse occupants managed the not insignificant accomplishment
of becoming essential to the New York photography scene.
One of her enduring subjects has been her son, Oscar winner, Adrien
Brody. ÒFrom the time he was born, Adrien was my favorite subject to
photograph. I couldn't take my eyes off him. Here was this vibrant little
being; his emotions mirrored in his face,Ó said Plachy.
Andre
Kertesz, her mentor, friend and compatriot said of her work, "I have
never seen the moment sensed and caught on film with more intimacy and
humanity."
Plachy has had one woman shows at the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris,
The Queens Museum and The Minneapolis Institute of Fine Arts. She also
has had shows in Budapest, Ljubljana, Manchester, Berlin, Vancouver,
Perpignan, Arles, and Pingyau, China. Her work is in the permanent collections
of The Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum, The Brooklyn Museum
in New York, The George Eastman House, The Center for Creative Photography
at the University of Arizona, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The
Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and The San Francisco Museum of Fine
Arts.
Additionally
Syliva is the recipient of a John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship.
Plachy is
a regular contributor at The New Yorker and her work has appeared in
many publications, including Fortune, Grand Street, Art Forum, The New
York Times Magazine, Harpers Magazine and Granta. For over eight years
The Village Voice published a weekly uncaptioned, black and white photograph,
of Plachy's work under the heading: "Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour,"
which later became a book of the same title, (Aperture, 1990)
Plachy's new book, Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home (Aperture September,
2004) is an intensely personal photographic journey of Plachy's childhood
in Eastern Europe and a celebration of her many years of superb image
making.
Joyce Tenneson, fine art photographer, WIPI Advisory Board member and
the 1990 recipient of the Distinguished Photographers Award, along with
WIPI president, Jean Ferro will make the presentation at the 2nd Annual
Lucie Awards in New York, October 18, at the American Airlines Theatre.
The Gala Event also will honor industry greats such as Gordon Parks,
Sebastiao Salgado, Cornell Capa, Arthur Leipzig, Julius Shulman, Jim
Marshall, Bruce Davidson, James Nachtwey, Bert Stern, Lillian Bassman,
Bob Willoughby, Arnold Newman and Jay Maisel.
Special tribute previously recorded video presentations by Cindy Crawford,
Jodie Foster, Andie MacDowell and Anjelica Huston for Helmut Newton
and Francesco Scavullo are also planned.
Sylvia Plachy by the Berlin Wall photo by James Ridgeway
ADDITIONAL
NOTES:
1. Plachy, started photographing in 1964, when she embarked on
her many visits back to Eastern Europe. Her book, published by Aperture
this fall, is a compilation of those photographs and a memoir of which
Jim Jarmusch said: "The small texts and remarkable images that comprises
"Self portrait with Cows Going Home create a collectice map where the
textures of a personal history of Eastern Europe mix fact , memory and
dream. Plachy's haunted photographs are perfect in their imperfection,
devoid of unnecessary weight, each one its own self portrait - but somehow
from the inside out".
2. Additionally, Sylvia had been a photographer at the weekly New York
City Newspaper, The Village Voice for thirty years and for eight years
she had a weekly black and white photo published in that publication,
near the contents page, usually without a caption. The longest running
series was called, "Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour" (Aperture, l990),
which later became a book and included an afterword by Guy Trebay and
a record by Tom Waits. Another book, "Red Light" (powerHouse 1996) was
a collaboration with writer, James Ridgeway about the sex industry.
Her monthly column of writing and photographs in Metropolis Magazine
was published as a book, "Signs & Relics" (the Monacelli Press, 1999)
with a foreword by Wim Wenders. " Not since Robert Frank's THE AMERICANS
have I experienced a body of work of such range and power. She makes
me laugh and she breaks my heart. She's moral. She is everything a photographer
should be. I've never met her, but now I have her book," said Richard
Avedon.
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The
Awards Backstage, page 1
The Presentation, page 2
Adrien Brody Video Clip - page 3
The Private Party, page 4
Full list of winners and presenters
Sylvia Plachy
articles
See: LucieAwards.com
Self Portrait with Cows Going Home 2004,
Aperture,
208 pages Hardcover,
$50
Publication date: October, 2004
press release for the book
Aperture
Page of Book images
Signs & Relics
Forward by Wim Wenders 1999,
The Monacelli Press,
224 pages Hardcover
Sylvia Plachy's Unguided Tour
Afterward by Guy Trebay
Music by Tom Waits 1990,
Aperture Foundation Inc.
Hardcover $100
includes "flex disc" by Tom Waits
Out of Print; limited number available
Red Light * OUT OF PRINT
Sylvia Plachy & James Ridgeway
Publisher PpowerHouse Books, 1996
£25.00 hardback * OUT OF PRINT
ISBN: 1-57687-000-6 256 pages, 109 duotones
August 31, 2001
Sylvia
Plachy, an article written by PRO member Juanita
Richeson
Information
LINKS:
Visit
Amazon for a list of books related to Sylvia Plachy
New
Yorker Online slide show, posted 8/5/02
Penn
Humanities Forum -2000-2001 theme is "Style." Guest curated by Professor
Wendy Steiner http://www.upenn.edu/ARG/archive/plachy/plachy.html
CityPaper.net "Her Way" 5-12-2002
http://www.pipacs.hu/2b/sylviaplachy.html
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Women In Photography International Distinguished
Photographer's Award - 2004
* - Sylvia Plachy
presented by Jean Ferro, WIPI
nominees: Lillian Bassman, Lynn Goldsmith, Helen Levitt, Sally Mann,
Annette Messager, Catherine Opie, Sylvia Plachy, Cindy Sherman, Carrie
Mae Weems, (Mariana Yampolsky 1925-2002)
Women In Photography International
Distinguished Photographer's Award - 2003
Annie Leibovitz
see: WIPI
News Feature on Annie
and previous Distinguished Photographers Award list
International
Photo Awards
Gala Event, Sunday, December 7, 2003
WIPI Photos
at Los Angeles event - 2003
Women In Photography International
Distinguished Photographer's Award - 2003
* - Annie Leibovitz
presented by Jean Ferro, WIPI
nominees: Uta Barth, Lillian Bassman, Jodi Cobb, Helen Levitt, Annie
Leibovitz, Sally Mann, Annette Messager, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman,
Carrie Mae Weems, Mariana Yampolsky
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