Fred Ritchin
Fred Ritchin is the director of PixelPress.org, a former editor at the New York Times, and the author of several books.[1] He served as Associate Professor of photography and communications at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.[2] He has been widely quoted on the difficulty of verifying whether photographs accurately depict events in the digital age.[3]
Books
- After Photography: W.W. Norton & Co. (December 17, 2008)[4]
- In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture, 1990 [reissued 1999]). *Co-author of An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado (Aperture, 1990)[5]
- In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (W. W. Norton, 1989)[6]
- Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, 1850-1990 (W. W. Norton, 1993).
Essays
Essays by Ritchin appear in the following books:
- Photo Video: Photography in the Age of the Computer (1991)
- A New History of Photography (1994)
- National Geographic Photos: Milestones (1999)
- Sahel: Man in Distress (2004)
- Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers on the Vietnam War (2005)[7]
- The Critical Image (1990).
- Felice Beato: Photographer of the Eastern Road (2010)
Exhibits curated
- Contemporary Latin American Photographers (1987)
- An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado (1990)
- The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith: Twelve Photographers in the Humanistic Tradition (1991)
- Mexico Through Foreign Eyes: Photographs, 1850-1990 (1992).
Awards
- Markle Foundation grant (1993–1994)
- Presidential Fellowship for Junior Faculty (1994)
- David Payne-Carter Award for Teaching Excellence (1995)
- Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service by the New York Times for the Web site, "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace"(1997).
- Hasselblad Foundation Grant (1999) for future web project "Witnessing and the Web: An Experiment in Documentary Photography”
References
- ^ npr.org Brundin, Jenny, "Salgado's 'Exodus" captures the human face of war." National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Sunday, December 11, 2005
- ^ [1] Mirapaul, Matthew "The sweeping view from inside a digital bubble." The New York Times, September 25, 2003. Retrieved January 29, 2010
- ^ nytimes.com"Photography view; ask it no questions: the camera can lie." The New York Times, August 12, 1990. Retrieved January 29, 2010
- ^ time.com Pickert, Kate "The future of photography." Time, December 18, 2008. Retrieved January 29, 2010
- ^ boston.com"Vanishing images," Boston.com, The Boston Globe, February 17, 2005. Retrieved January 29, 2010
- ^ news.google.com"Photo exhibit is Anchorage museum's largest to date." Anchorage Daily News, November 1, 1992. Retrieved January 29, 2010
- ^ sfgate.com Winn, Steven, "What can photos teach us about war? Have a look." San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate, April 19, 2005. Retrieved January 29, 2010
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