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Citibank Photography Prize
 Citibank Photography Prize ... 9704. Newest Review: ... and one paragraph on the selection of images they're exhibiting for the prize, but that's all. Evidently the newspaper reviewers were so hungry for information that they had to repeat practically all of it - I learned next to nothing on top of what I had gleaned before I came to the show. To make it even more difficult, these labels are often placed in reall ... more ...
y inconvenient places, like next to the door, creating bottlenecks as people queued up to try and find some kind of contextual hook to hang the exhibits on. I wonder how many of them were as dis...more |
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Citibank Photography Prize: Interesting? Don't bank on it (1078 words)
by ermintrude - written on 12/02/01 (Very useful, 225 readings)
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The Citibank Prize nominations are touted on the Photographers' Gallery website as showing "diversity, imagination and technical brilliance" - however, what seems to be sadly missing from this exhibition is general accessibility and any kind of interpretation. Maybe I should illustrate where I'm coming from here - an enthusiastic amateur photographer who doesn't go to many exhibitions, I had read of the Citibank Prize in the listings section of the Guardian, among other places. Taking a trip to London with other members of the university photo society to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) exhibition, I thought it would be the ...
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