Photographer Sylvia Plachy honored by Women In Photography International at the 2nd Annual Lucie Awards, New York
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) September 20, 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 http://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, arrived in New York in 1958 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. "From the time he was born, Adrien was my favorite subject to photograph. I couldn't take my eyes off him. His emotions were mirrored in his face," said Plachy.
Mentored by Andre Kertez with a strong history in photojournalism, Plachy has exhibited her work variously at the Whitney Museum, 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 both The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
Additionally she is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, while her work as appeared in The New Yorker, Time, GEO, Granta, Artforum, Conde Nast Traveler, New York Times Magazine, and Stern among other outlets. 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."
Her 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 WIPI's Distinguished Photographers Award, 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 presentations by Cindy Crawford, Jodie Foster, Andie MacDowell and Anjelica Huston for Helmut Newton and Francesco Scavullo are also planned.
Honor and celebrate the masters of photography at the Second Annual Lucie Awards. Tickets are available now!
To purchase tickets or advertise in the Lucie Awards evening ceremony catalogue, please visit http://www.lucieawards.com or call 310.659.0122.
http://www.womeninphotography.org/Events-Exhibits/DistinguishedPhotog/SylviaPlachy_2004/Plachy.html
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