Kraszna-Krausz Book Award

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The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation was set up by Andor Kraszna-Krausz, the founder of Focal Press. Since 1985 the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have been made annually for books on photography and the moving show more image. The winning books have been those which make original and lasting educational, professional, historical and cultural contributions to the field. In addition, the Foundation offers small grants to assist in the development and completion of new or unfinished projects, works or literature in the fields of photography and the moving image.

The award was known as the And/Or Book Award in 2009 and 2010. (reference one and two) show less
Stages:
All, Winner (18), Shortlist (1), No Stage (44)
Categories:
All, Moving Image (26), Photography (37)
Years:
All, 2019 (2), 2018 (2), 2017 (2), 2016 (2), 2015 (2), 2014 (2), 2013 (2), 2012 (2), 2011 (2), 2008 (3), 2007 (1), 2006 (2), 2005 (2), 2003 (4), 2001 (3), 2000 (2), 1999 (7), 1998 (2), 1997 (2), 1996 (1), 1995 (3), 1994 (3), 1993 (3), 1992 (3), 1988 (1), 1985 (3)

Winner 18

WorkCategoryYear
Scala Cinema 1978-1993 by Jane GilesMoving Image2019
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness by Zanele MuholiPhotography2019
Chrystel Lebas - Field Studies by Chrystel LebasPhotography2018
Anatomy of sound : Norman Corwin and media authorship by Jacob SmithMoving Image2017
Provoke: Between Protest and Performance: Photography in Japan 1960-1975 by Diane DuforPhotography2017
Amore e piombo - The Photography of Extremes in 1970s Italy by AmcPhotography2015
Hollywood Costume by Deborah Nadoolman LandisMoving Image2013
TJ--Johannesburg Photographs 1948-2010 / Double Negative: A Novel by Ivan VladislavićPhotography2011
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945 by Matthew S. WitkovskyPhotography2008
Orson Welles: Hello Americans by Simon CallowMoving Image2007
The Photobook: A History - Volume 2 by Martin ParrPhotography2006
Mitch Epstein: Family Business by Mitch EpsteinPhotography2005
Scientific Photography and Applied Imaging by Sidney RayPhotography2000
Real Fantasies: Edward Steichen's Advertising Photography by Patricia JohnstonPhotography1999
Umbo: Otto Umbehr 1902-1980 by Herbert MolderingsPhotography1998
Eve Arnold: In Retrospect by Eve ArnoldPhotography1996
The Illustrated History of Colour Photography by Jack H. CootePhotography1994
Biomedical Photography by John Paul Vetter RBP FBPA Hon FIMIPhotography1992

Shortlist 1

WorkCategoryYear
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert W. McChesneyMoving Image2001

No Stage 44

WorkCategoryYear
Split Screen Nation: Moving Images of the American West and South by Susan CourtneyMoving Image2018
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema by Allyson FieldMoving Image2016
Fazal Sheikh: The Erasure Trilogy by Fazal SheikhPhotography2016
Death and the Moving Image: Ideology, Iconography and I by Michele AaronMoving Image2015
Charles Urban : pioneering the non-fiction film in Britain and America, 1897-1925 by Luke McKernanMoving Image2014
Sergio Larrain by Agnes SirePhotography2014
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) by Anne Wilkes TuckerPhotography2013
Concentrationary cinema aesthetics as political resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and fog (1955) by Griselda PollockMoving Image2012
Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs by Weston J. NaefPhotography2012
Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century by Matthew SolomonMoving Image2011
A History of Artists' Film and Video in Britain, 1897-2004 by David CurtisMoving Image2008
Impressed by light : British photographs from paper negatives, 1840-1860 by Roger TaylorPhotography2008
The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1 by Martin ParrPhotography2006
Antonio Biasiucci : RES : lo stato delle cose by Antonio BiasiucciPhotography2005
Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film by Giuliana BrunoMoving Image2003
This film is dangerous : a celebration of nitrate film by Roger SmitherMoving Image2003
The Beautiful and the Damned: The Creation of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Photography by Roger HargreavesPhotography2003
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot by Larry J. SchaafPhotography2003
Writing Himself into History : Oscar Micheaux, His Silent Films, and His Audiences by Pearl BowserMoving Image2001
Special Effects: The History and Technique by Richard RickittMoving Image2001
Boris Mikhailov: Case History by Boris MikhailovPhotography2000
Television : An International History of the Formative Years by R. W. BurnsMoving Image1999
More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts by James NaremoreMoving Image1999
Photography, an independent art : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839-1996 by Mark Haworth-BoothPhotography1999
High Speed Photography and Photonics by Sidney Ray BSc MSc ASIS HonFBIPP FMPA HonFRPSPhotography1999
Parisian Views by Shelley RicePhotography1999
Delta: The Perils, Profits and Politics of Water in South and Southeast Asia by Daniel SchwartzPhotography1999
Beauty of Another Order: Photography in Science by Ann ThomasPhotography1998
Encyclopedia of Animation Techniques (Encyclopedia of Art Series) by Richard TaylorMoving Image1997
World According To Hollywood (Wisconsin Studies in Film) by Ruth VaseyMoving Image1997
Dealmaking in the Film & Television Industry: From Negotiations to Final Contracts by Mark LitwakMoving Image1995
Being Digital by Nicholas NegroponteMoving Image1995
Film: An International History of the Medium by Robert SklarMoving Image1995
Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye by Gilles MoraPhotography1994
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue by Eugene RichardsPhotography1994
Widescreen Cinema (Harvard Film Studies) by John BeltonMoving Image1993
Hollywood's overseas campaign : the North Atlantic movie trade, 1920-1950 by I. C. JarvieMoving Image1993
Walt in Wonderland: The Silent Films of Walt Disney by Russell MerrittMoving Image1993
Photography at The Bauhaus by Jeannine FiedlerPhotography1992
Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot, and the Invention of Photography by Mr. Larry J. SchaafPhotography1992
Unexplored London by Paul BarkshirePhotography1988
Let Truth Be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs by Ben MaddowPhotography1985
Body Victorious: The Illustrated Story of Our Immune System and Other Defences of the Human Body by Lennart NilssonPhotography1985
Incurably romantic by Bernard F. StehlePhotography1985

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