CDS / Honickman First Book Prize in Photography
About the Judges
Judges for the CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography are among the most significant and innovative artists, curators, and writers in contemporary photography. Renowned photographer and writer Robert Adams was the prize's inaugural judge in 2002. Maria Morris Hambourg, founding curator of the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, judged the second biennial competition (2004).
The judge for the third competition (2006) was Robert Frank, one of America's most important and influential photographers. Celebrated photographer Mary Ellen Mark was the judge of the fourth prize competition (2008) and groundbreaking color photographer William Eggleston served as judge for the fifth (2010). Renowned photographer and curator Deborah Willis, Ph.D, was the judge of the 2012 CDS/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography.
Peter Barberie
Peter Barberie is the Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center, at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art. In 2014, Barberie organized the exhibition Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography, an in-depth retrospective
of Strand's photography and films; the exhibition will travel to Fotomuseum Winterthur (March 2015); Mapfre Foundation,
Madrid (June 2015); and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (March 2016). In 2012, he organized the exhibition
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years, a major mid-career survey of Strauss's photography. His publications include Paul Strand:
Master of Modern Photography (2014), Zoe Strauss: Ten Years (2012), Looking at Atget (2005), and
Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery (co-authored with Katherine Ware, 2006).
He also contributed an essay to the exhibition catalogue Charles Marville, Photographer of Paris (edited by Sarah Kennel
and published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, with the University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Mr. Barberie is a graduate of the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the history of photography and modern art from Princeton University (Ph.D., 2007).
Sandra S. Phillips
Sandra S. Phillips is the senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Phillips received a B.A. in art and art history from Bard College in 1967 and an M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1969.
She earned a Ph.D. in art history in 1985 from City University of New York, where she specialized in the history of
photography and American and European art from 1849 to 1940. Prior to joining SFMOMA she worked as a curator
of the Vassar Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, New York.
The most recent exhibitions that Phillips has organized and curated for SFMOMA are South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk; Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective; and Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870.
Over her career, she has curated and organized many major exhibitions, including Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present; William Klein, New York 1954–1955; Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence; Diane Arbus: Revelations; Larry Sultan: The Valley; Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice and Paul Sack Collection; Beyond Real: Surrealist Photography and Sculpture from Bay Area Collections; Robert Adams: Turning Back; and two installments of Face of Our Time, an exhibition that brings together contemporary photographers working on concerns they have in the world and includes work by Yto Barrada, Judith Joy Ross, Guy Tillim, and others.
Philips also co-organized Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, and together with guest curator John Szarkowski, oversaw the exhibition Ansel Adams at 100 and contributed to the exhibition Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document in collaboration with SFMOMA's curators of media arts and painting and sculpture.
Phillips has authored or coauthored numerous catalogues, for the exhibitions listed above as well as Charmed Places: Hudson River Artists and Their Houses, Studios, and Vistas; Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray; Eyes of Time: Photojournalism in America; and André Kertész: Of Paris and New York. Her articles and essays have appeared in such journals as Art in America, DoubleTake, and History of Photography, as well as in many books and catalogues edited by other scholars and institutions, such as those on Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Rineke Dijkstra, Shomei Tomatsu, and Henry Wessel.
She received the Vision Award from the Center for Photography at Woodstock in 2013.Deborah Willis, Ph.D
Deborah Willis, Ph.D, who has made a professional career as an art photographer and curator of African American culture,
is considered one of the nation's premier historians of African American photography Dr. Willis is Professor and Chair of the Department
of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and also maintains an affiliated appointment with the
College of Arts and Sciences, African Studies. A 2005 Guggenheim Fellow and Fletcher Fellow, and a 2000 MacArthur Fellow, Dr. Willis was
the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Infinity Award in Writing from the International Center for Photography. Recently, she was named
among the "100 Most Important People in Photography" by American Photography magazine.
William Eggleston
William Eggleston's groundbreaking reinvention of color photography in the 1970s established him as one of America's most original artists.
His landmark solo show at the Museum of Modern Art, curated by John Szarkowski, and the companion book, William Eggleston's Guide
(1976), established him as the "father of color photography." Eggleston's other books and portfolios include Los Alamos, Election Eve, 5 x 7, 2 ¼,
and William Eggleston: Paris. He has received awards and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts,
the Hasselblad Foundation, and PhotoEspaña. In 2004, he was awarded the Getty Images Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Center
of Photography. In 2008, the Whitney Museum of American Art, with Haus der Kunst in Munich, organized the retrospective exhibition
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008.
Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark received international acclaim for her many books and exhibitions as well as her editorial magazine work.
Mark's portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, brothels in Bombay, and her award-winning essay on runaway children in Seattle
confirmed her place as one of America's most significant and expressive documentary photographers. Mark was a contributing photographer
to The New Yorker and her work was featured in LIFE, the New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.
Her many honors included a Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of Photography, an Infinity Award for Journalism, a Guggenheim fellowship,
the World Press Award for Outstanding Body of Work Throughout the Years; and the Matrix Award for Outstanding Woman in the field
of Film/Photography. Mark died at the age of 75 on May 25, 2015 in Manhattan.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank, one of America's most important and influential photographers, will judge the 2006 CDS/Honickman
First Book Prize in Photography. Frank's complex and visionary photographs of postwar America, as well as his later films and videos,
have greatly influenced the work of generations of artists. His book The Americans (1958), an exploration of the United
States made with the support of the Guggenheim Foundation, marked a turning point in photography. Frank's films include Pull My
Daisy, OK, End Here, and Me and My Brother. The National Gallery of Art in Washington founded the Robert Frank
Collection in 1990 with Franks's donated negatives, contact sheets, work and exhibition prints. Robert Frank has also received an
International Photography Award from the Hasselblad Foundation in Sweden and a Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of
Photography in New York.
Maria Morris Hambourg
Maria Morris Hambourg is the founding curator of the Department of
Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her career began at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she worked closely with
John Szarkowski in the Department of Prints and Photographs. She has
curated such exhibitions as Thomas Struth: 1977–2002; Richard
Avedon: Portraits; Walker Evans; The Waking Dream: Photography's
First Century; and Carleton Watkins, the Art of Perception.
Robert Adams
Robert Adams is one of America's preeminent landscape photographers whose work has been published, exhibited, and collected throughout
the world. His books of photographs include From the Missouri West; Perfect Times, Perfect Places; and Summer Nights,
Walking; and his writings on photography are available in such books as Beauty in Photography and Why People Photograph.
Adams's work has been widely exhibited, including shows at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1979). He has received the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize,
as well as grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Hasselblad Foundation.
The Yale Art Gallery has organized a new retrospective exhibition of his work that opens at the Vancouver Art Gallery in fall 2010.