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Since 1985, the ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing.
2018 Recipients
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Bruce Davidson
APPLIED: Alexandra Bell
ART: Samuel Fosso
ARTIST’S BOOK: Dayanita Singh, Museum Bhavan
CRITICAL WRITING AND RESEARCH: Maurice Berger, Race Stories column for the Lens section of the New York Times
DOCUMENTARY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM: Amber Bracken
EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER: Natalie Keyssar
ONLINE PLATFORM AND NEW MEDIA: Women Photograph
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Juergen Teller
TRUSTEES AWARD: Thomson Reuters
Past recipients include Berenice Abbott, Lynsey Addario, Richard Avedon, Ariella Azoulay, David Bailey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chuck Close, Roy DeCarava, Elliott Erwitt, Harold Evans, Larry Fink, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Robert Frank, Adam Fuss, David Goldblatt, Paul Graham, David Guttenfelder, Mishka Henner, André Kertész, Steven Klein, William Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Ryan McGinley, Susan Meiselas, Duane Michals, Daidō Moriyama, Zanele Muholi, James Nachtwey, Shirin Neshat, Gordon Parks, Gilles Peress, Walid Raad, Eugene Richards, Sebastião Salgado, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, Peter Van Atgmael, and Ai Weiwei, among others. Past Infinity Award attendees include Hamish Bowles, Naomi Campbell, Grace Coddington, Bella Hadid, Carolina Herrera, Arianna Huffington, Karlie Kloss, Alexandra Richards, Leelee Sobieski, and Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor.
All proceeds from the Infinity Awards benefit ICP’s exhibition, education, community, and public programs.
For more information and advance reservations, please contact events@icp.org or 212.857.9714.
Since 1985, the ICP Infinity Awards have recognized major contributions and emerging talent in the fields of photojournalism, art, fashion photography, and publishing.
2018 Recipients
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Bruce Davidson
APPLIED: Alexandra Bell
ART: Samuel Fosso
ARTIST’S BOOK: Dayanita Singh, Museum Bhavan
CRITICAL WRITING AND RESEARCH: Maurice Berger, Race Stories column for the Lens section of the New York Times
DOCUMENTARY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM: Amber Bracken
EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHER: Natalie Keyssar
ONLINE PLATFORM AND NEW MEDIA: Women Photograph
SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Juergen Teller
TRUSTEES AWARD: Thomson Reuters
Past recipients include Berenice Abbott, Lynsey Addario, Richard Avedon, Ariella Azoulay, David Bailey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Chuck Close, Roy DeCarava, Elliott Erwitt, Harold Evans, Larry Fink, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Robert Frank, Adam Fuss, David Goldblatt, Paul Graham, David Guttenfelder, Mishka Henner, André Kertész, Steven Klein, William Klein, Karl Lagerfeld, Annie Leibovitz, Helen Levitt, Mary Ellen Mark, Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Ryan McGinley, Susan Meiselas, Duane Michals, Daidō Moriyama, Zanele Muholi, James Nachtwey, Shirin Neshat, Gordon Parks, Gilles Peress, Walid Raad, Eugene Richards, Sebastião Salgado, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Cindy Sherman, Peter Van Atgmael, and Ai Weiwei, among others. Past Infinity Award attendees include Hamish Bowles, Naomi Campbell, Grace Coddington, Bella Hadid, Carolina Herrera, Arianna Huffington, Karlie Kloss, Alexandra Richards, Leelee Sobieski, and Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor.
All proceeds from the Infinity Awards benefit ICP’s exhibition, education, community, and public programs.
For more information and advance reservations, please contact events@icp.org or 212.857.9714.


![2023 Infinity Award: Critical Writing, Research, and Theory—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
The International Center of Photography’s Infinity Awards honor outstanding achievements in photography and visual arts. In 2023, we recognize artists working in photojournalism, contemporary photography, new media, and critical writing, research, and theory. All proceeds from the Infinity Awards directly benefit ICP’s education and exhibition programs, providing critical funding for the entire institution.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University, a film essayist, and curator of archives and exhibitions.
Her books include: Potential History – Unlearning Imperialism (Verso, 2019); Civil Imagination: The Political Ontology of Photography (Verso, 2012); The Civil Contract of Photography (Zone Books, 2008); From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, (Pluto Press, 2011).
Her potential histories, archives and curatorial work include: The Natural History of Rape (Berlin Biennale, 2022); Errata (Tapiès Foundation, 2019, HKW, Berlin, 2020), Enough! The Natural Violence of New World Order, (F/Stop photography festival, Leipzig, 2016), Act of State 1967-2007 – Israeli Regime of Occupation 1967-2007, (Centre Pompidou, 2016, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa Fotografico, 2020); The Body Politic [in Really Useful Knowledge, curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW], Reina Sofia, Madrid; Potential History of Palestine (2012, Stuk / Artefact, Louven), Untaken Photographs (2010, Igor Zabel Award, The Moderna galerija, Lubliana; Zochrot, Tel Aviv).
Among her film-essays: The world like a Jewel in the Hand – Unlearning Imperial Plunder II (2022); Un-documented: Undoing Imperial Plunder (2019); Civil Alliances, Palestine, 47-48 (2012); I Also Dwell Among Your Own People: Conversations with Azmi Bishara (2004) & The Food Chain (2004). 2023 Infinity Award: Critical Writing, Research, and Theory—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tB1XKB__wTI/mqdefault.jpg)


![Crown Graphic Camera & Weegee
We take a look at this amazing Crown Graphic camera that one of our visitors brought by ICP! Used by Weegee (whose work is on view now) back in the day to make his images on the streets of NYC, this hefty camera is no joke.
Our visitor Mary was kind enough to sit down with us in the ICP library and show off the camera.
Image: Unidentified Photographer, [Weegee with his Speed Graphic camera], ca. 1944. Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (2200.1993.a) / Unidentified Photographer, [Weegee with his camera], ca. 1951. Bequest of Wilma Wilcox, 1993 (20379.1993) / Weegee, Simply Add Boiling Water, December 18, 1943. Purchase, with funds provided by Lois and Bruce Zenkel Purchase Fund, 1982 (150.1982) Crown Graphic Camera & Weegee](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/u6f98t6YhQE/mqdefault.jpg)




