THE ROBERT CORNELIUS PORTRAIT AWARD
Juried By Stephen Perloff -The winner images will be featured in The Photo Review
The first photographic portrait of a human being, 1839. A daguerreotype self-portrait by Robert Cornelius, an American son of Dutch immigrants
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SUMMARY:
The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards ( WPGA) open a Juried competition for professional and non professional photographers worldwide: The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award.
The theme is Portrait in its broader sense, with several related categories the contestants will be able to submit their images.
The winning images will be featured in The Photo Review, and published in the 2011 Robert Cornelius Portrait Award Calendar. The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award will consist in a cash prize of US$ 1,000, and the winners of each category will receive a cash prize of US$ 300. 50 selected images will be part of an itinerant exhibition during 2011 starting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then in Europe and US. As in other contests organized by WPGA who partner with Save the Children, a portion of its revenue (entry fees and sales of works in exhibitions) will be donated to that humanitarian organization.
WPGA invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include old and new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome to The Robert Cornelius Award.
CATEGORIES:
The photographers (professional and non professional) may submit their images to The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award in the following eight categories:
- Portrait (the capture of the likeness of a person or a small group of people, in which the face and its expression is predominant)
- People(snap shots and street photography where people are predominant in the scene – quoting Cartier Bresson: the “decisive moment”)
- Figure and Nude (composed image of a person in a still position; an art form, where the photography of a nude or the human figure is a stylized depiction of body with the line and form of the human figure as the primary objective; it is a photograph that studies the human body rather than the person; as opposed to a portrait may not show a face at all)
- Documentary, Editorial and Current Affairs (this category refers to any type of photojournalism, but it also may be an amateur, artistic or project pursuit, attempting to produce truthful, objective –and even candid photography- of a particular subject where people is the focus of the scene. Through these images the viewer learns truth information about cultural, political and environmental situations)
- Alternative processes (In this case the term alternative process refers to any non-silver based photographic printing process. Alternative processes are often called historical, or non-silver processes, such as gum bichromate, print-out paper, platinum, palladium, cyanotype, collotype, carbo and albumen. All kind of alternative processes and mixed techniques are accepted in this category provided a portrait, a figure of a group of person is the main subject.
- Digital Manipulation (By Digital Manipulation we understand a photo manipulation where image editing is done to create an illusion or deception (in contract to mere enhancement or correction) through digital means. The manipulation of the image is often much more explicit than subtle alterations to color balance or contrast. Image editing software can be used to apply different effects and warp the image until the desired result is achieved. The resulting image may have little or no resemblance to the photo (or photos in the case of compositing) from which is originated. Only manipulated images where the human is the focus will be accepted in this category)
- Performing Arts (Images of portraits, people and figure participating or accomplishing a performing art such as dance, music, drama)
- Self Portrait (When the photographer creates a portrait of him- or herself; it could be alone or with other people if the composition configures a desired environment)
Any image can be submitted to one or more categories. There is no limit in the quantity of images to be submitted and in the date the images were taken.
JUROR:
Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review and editor of The Photograph Collector. He has taught photography and the history of photography at numerous Philadelphia-area colleges and Universities and has been the recipient of two grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for arts criticism. His articles have been reproduced in dozens of other journals and he has been called on as an expert to comment on the state of the photography market for publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal
DATES:
Early Bird Deadline: March 14th, 2010.
Final Deadline: April 25th, 2010
Jurors’ selection will take place during the month of May, and the final announcement will be on June 8th, 2010.
ENTRY FEES:
The entry fees for submitting images to The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award will be:
Until the Early Bird deadline: for the first 3 images US$ 32; each additional image US$ 8
Between the Early Bird deadline and the Final Deadline: for the first 3 images US$ 45; each additional image US$ 12.
An image can be submitted to more than one category, counting as an additional image without discount.
AWARDS AND PRIZES:
The Robert Cornelius Portrait Award will be given to the best of show photographer. The Juror will take into account not only an individual image but also the body of work submitted in one or several categories. First prize and Honorable mentions will be awarded in each category.
The Best of Show photographer will receive a cash prize of US$ 1,000. The winners in each category will receive a cash prize of US$ 300.
In every category Honorable mentions will be awarded at discretion of the Juror.
Selected awarded images will be featured in The Photo Review.
All awardees’ images will be posted in WonderPick, the online gallery of WPGA, where their works could be sold in large additions. Awardees’ works who accept to sell their works in WonderPick in large editions (optional), at affordable prices, will receive a 60% commission. Sale of the images in large editions is optional by the awardees.
50 selected images will be part of an itinerant exhibition during 2011 starting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and then in Europe and US. The exposed works will be sold –in limited editions of 3- at the exhibition: artists will receive 40% commission; another 40% will be donated to Save the Children, and the remaining 20% will be used for exhibition organizational and promotional costs.
Selected images will be published in the 2011 Robert Cornelius Portrait Award Calendar.
COPYRIGHT:
Submitted photographs may be reproduced for the purpose of marketing and promoting WPGA contests, in catalogs, posters, postcards, publications, and on the Internet. Such use is granted for not more than two years after the announcement of the awards, and without payment to the photographer or featured models. Photographers will receive photo credits with each use, and will allow WPGA to sub-license their photographs to the press for reproduction in connection with the contest and WPGA exhibitions.
ABOUT THE PHOTO REVIEW (www.photoreview.org):
The Photo Review is a critical journal of national scope and international readership. Publishing since 1976, the Photo Review covers photography events throughout the country and serves as a central resource for the Mid-Atlantic region. With incisive reviews, exciting portfolios, lively interviews, the latest in books and exhibitions, The Photo Review quarterly journal has earned a reputation as one of the best serious photography publications being produced today.
The Photo Review’s writers --- including A.D. Coleman, Stephen Perloff, Shelley Rice, Peter Hay Halpert, Barbara L. Michaels, Jean Dykstra, and Mark Power --- have weighed in on subjects as varied as the posthumous publication of work by Diane Arbus, women in photography, the growth of digital media, the historical movement from Pictorialism into Modernism, etc., etc. In his ongoing series, "The Censorship Diaries," Editor Stephen Perloff was in the forefront in covering the controversy over funding for the NEA and censorship of the arts.
The Photo Review has earned a reputation for lucid and incisive writing aimed at an intelligent and informed audience, but free of the cant and jargon that infects much contemporary writing about art. Thus, both arts publications and the popular press have looked to us for interpretations of what's happening on the photography scene. Articles have been reprinted in such publications as Afterimage, To, Photography in New York, American Photo, and others.
Stephen Perloff is also publisher of:
THE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
Since 1980, collectors, curators and dealers have relied on The Photograph Collector monthly newsletter. Readers who need to know what's happening in all aspects of the market for collectible photographs turn to this publication for analysis, facts, and candid advice, news from dealers and galleries, upcoming auctions and trade fairs and symposiums, and more.
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ART MARKET
Now in its 26th year, The Photographic Art Market is the definitive authority for reported prices for photographs sold at auction annually. Each volume lists all photographs sold at the major photography auctions for the calendar year and provides complete information, including auction house, date of sale, lot number, print type and dimensions, negative date and print date, the estimate, and the amount paid.