Students and community members are encouraged to participate in a photography exhibition and contest as part of the 2011 Cayuga Reads community reading project.
Artists such as Norman Rockwell, Robert Frank, Eve Arnold and many others are famous for capturing images and photographs from the 1950s. The book In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America, by Auburn photographer and author Kevin Rivoli, includes local images similar to the paintings done by Rockwell in the 1950s. His book will be a great help to anyone interested in entering the photography contest.
The theme for the photography contest is “Life in the 1950s.” Creativity, research, and a “good eye” will help you as you attempt to capture a photograph or photographs that represents life as it was in the 1950s. Photographs may be still life, portraits, nature, landscape, or anything else you feel would help describe America as it was in the ‘50s. Photographs may or may not be staged. This theme is not meant for subjects to “dress up” with clothing from the ‘50s or to recreate events from the ‘50s, but instead to emulate the values and life in America as it was years ago.
Submission Guidelines
This contest/exhibition is for students and community members. Black and white photographs, color photographs, digital or analog photographs, photograms, or other experimental photography may be submitted. Photographers may submit between one and five photographs.
All submissions must be viewed as a print. Images may be digitally altered to enhance the artist’s work.
All photographs must be printed at a minimum of 5” x 7” and no larger than 13” x 19.”
Prints must be mounted on a rigid board or matted when submitted.
Please provide on the back of the print, either printed or neatly handwritten, the following information: artist’s name, address and phone number, and if applicable, artist’s grade, age, school, and sponsoring teacher’s name.
Optional guidelines
Also, as an option, artists may also identify any type of photographic techniques or methods used while capturing or printing photographs.
Additionally, entrants who wish to have their photographs included in an electronic display at Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES should email a jpeg image to avoorhees@cayboces.org .
Submitting Photographs
Please mail or hand deliver all submissions by October 14, 2011, to: William Gilmore, Auburn High School, 250 Lake Avenue, Auburn, NY 13021
Judging Criteria
Five awards will be given to those photographers who were able to correctly portray the theme with creativity, imagination, composition, and technique. The age and skill level of all of the photographers will be taken into consideration. Prizes will be awarded at a reception at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES.
