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HE M U S E U M OF M O D E R N ART WEST 53RD STREET, N E W YORK
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Prints from the prize-winning photographs will be available shortly before the exhibition opens on October 29.)
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ANNOUNCES WINNERS IN PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
From the 799 photographs entered in the Image of Freedom
Photography Competition held by the Museum of Modern Art from June 20
to August 15, one hundred prints have been selected for which purchase
prizes of $25.00 each will be paid. The one hundred prints represent
the work of sixty-six amateur and professional photographers in the
United States, several of them winning two or three awards. No con-
testant could win more than five awards. Two of the photographers
won four each: Walt Sanders of New York City and Brett Weston of Santa
Monica, California. The prize-winning prints will be shown in an ex
hibition at the Museum of Modern Art from October 29 through January 11,
The judging, which has Just been concluded, was anonymous as
photographs had to be submitted without identifying mark other than
entry number. The Jury was composed of:
Three members of the Museum staff: Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Director Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions Beaumont Newhall, Curator of Photography
and five members of the Committee on Photography: David H. McAlpin, Chairman Ansel Adams, Vice-Chairman James Thrall Soby A. Hyatt Mayor Nancy Newhall.
The sixty-six prize-winning contestants represented 16 states.
New York City had the highest number of entries, with 355. California
was second with 141; Michigan had 35; New Jersey 31; Pennsylvania 29;
Washington, D. C. , 22; Illinois 20; Oregon 14; Maryland 13;
Connecticut, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin, 12 each. Other states from which
photographs were received include Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Kentucky,
New Mexico, and Virginia.
The prize-winning contestants with the number of awards each.
received are as follows: Number of awards
Alexander Alland, HEW YORK CITY 2 Keith James Aulik ANTIGO, WISCONSIN l Frances Avery NEW YORK CITY 1 Oerhard H. Bakker MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN 1
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Ruth Bernhard Clarence Lincoln Block Mildred Leo Clemens Sara Cocomise Marjory Collins Imogen Cunningham E. Earl Curtis Hal Davidson Faurest Davis Richard Day Victor De Palma Arnold Eagle Edward Entin Walter Farynk Philip Fein Albert Fenn Henry G> Flannery Q. 0. Gilbert, M.D. Herbert Giles Mac Gramlich Sid Grossman John Gutmann Elizabeth Harding Theodore Helm Robert Ingram Jean Jackson
Andre Kertesz Alma Lavenson Luis Lemus Sol Libsohn Betty Clark Little J. W. McManigal Zell Mabee Jack Manning Wright Morris Joe Munroe
Roi Partridge Constance Phillips Eliot Porter Henry B. Robertson David Robblns LeRoy Robbins John C. Rogers Thurman Rotan Ralph Samuels Walt ' Sanders Gilbert H. Seaver Peter Sekaer Charles Sheeler Arthur S. Siegel Aaron Sisklnd Orville Logan Snider Frederick Sommer Rolf Tietgens Elizabeth Timberman Walter G. Treadwell
Alfredo Valente Harriet Veissi
E. K. Waters Ernest Weissmann Brett Weston Minor White
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