The Quest for a Guggenheim – What Inspired Me / The Upcoming 4 Part Series / Notable Guggenheim Fellows in Photography
Part 1 in a 4 part series…
In short, my blog inspired me to write about the process of applying for a Guggenheim Fellowship. Once I looked into the process I soon learned the best way to write about the Guggenheim was to actually apply for a Guggenheim. I had 2 very worthwhile current projects that I was working on (Piercing Darkness and The Americans…60 years after Frank) and used them to pitch to the Foundation as joint projects.
The entire month of June 2016 will be dedicated to the Quest for a Guggenheim series and will consist of the following posts:
Part 1: Quest for a Guggenheim – What Inspired Me / The Upcoming 4 Part Series / Notable Guggenheim Fellows in Photography
Part 2: The Quest for a Guggenheim – History, Application and the Process
Part 3: The Quest for a Guggenheim – Submitting a Portfolio / An Example of a Losing Portfolio.
Part 4: The Quest for a Guggenheim – Budget, Notification, Rejection and Closing Remarks
Receiving a Guggenheim is one of the most prestigious awards one can receive in their field. The $500,000 MacArthur Genius award is a lot more money. But from what I see the MacArthur does not always go to artists that I think are that great. On the other hand, Guggenheims in photography have consistently gone to a who’s who in the field of photography.
Here is a partial list of notable Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in photography:
1937 – Edward Weston
1940 – Walker Evans
1941 – Dorthea Lange
1945 – Jack Delano
1946 – Ansel Adams
1947 – Beaumont Newhall
1949 – Homer Page
1952 – Roy Decarava
1953 – Max Yavno
1954 – John Szarkowski
1955 – Robert Frank
1956 – W. Eugene Smith
1959 – Helen Levitt
1960 – Lee Freidlander
1963 – Diane Arbus
1964 – Garry Winogrand
1965 – Lisette Model
1966 – Aaron Siskind & William Gedney
1967 – Jerry Uelsmann
1969 – Danny Lyon
1970 – Minor White
1972 – Harry Morey Callahan
1973 – George A. Tice
1974 – Emmet Gowin, William Eggleston & Frederick Sommer
1975 – Stephen Shore
1976 – Nicholas Nixon
1977 – Sylvia Plachy
1979 – Richard Misrach & Joel Sternfeld
1980 – Eugene Richards
1982 – Barbara Kasten & Thomas Roma
1985 – Ralph Gibson
1987 – Sally Mann & Pedro Meyer
1988 – William Klein
1992 – Gilles Peress
1994 – Mary Ellen Mark
2003 – Fred Kray
2006 – Marco Breuer
2007 – Alex Webb
2008 – Gregg Miller
2010 – Shelby Lee Adams
2011 – Carolyn Drake
2012 – Richard Mosse
2015 – Susan Meiselas
To be continued in part 2…
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Girls of the Beat Generation
A forthcoming six volume artists’ book series by social documentary photographer Daniel D. Teoli Jr.
https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/girls-of-the-beat-generation-artists-book/
A complete list of artists’ books by Daniel D. Teoli Jr.
https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/artists-books-by-daniel-d-teoli-jr-2/
