Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2014

Specification

Publication Date: 13 November 2015
Price: £15
ISBN: 978 1 85514 487 3
Format: 280 x 220mm
Illustrations: 66 colour
Extent: 80 pages
Binding: Paperback with flaps
Category: Photography

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Out of print

Interviews by Richard McClure
Essay by Eamonn McCabe

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize celebrates the vitality and excellence in portrait photography today. This prize is one of the most important platforms for contemporary portrait photographers internationally, and sixty stunning reproductions of the selected works provide an excellent overview of current photographic styles, trends and techniques.

Description

This book provides a unique opportunity to see an inspiring range of portraits from contemporary photographers selected from thousands of submissions. The works included are not only about the subjects – people who appear intriguing, defiant or relaxed – but also reveal the outstanding skill of the photographers, whose intelligence and diligence enable them to capture a moment in time, and to convey something of the spirit of those photographed.

Fully illustrated in colour throughout, the book features all the selected entries, comments and insights from the judges, interviews with the prizewinners and an extended essay about the subject of beauty in contemporary photographic portraiture.

Authors

Richard McClure is a freelance journalist.

Eamonn McCabe is a photographer and four-times winner of Sports Photographer of the Year. In 1985, McCabe was named News Photographer of the Year for his work at the Heysel Stadium disaster and he is Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and the National Media Museum, Photography and TV. His books include The Making of Great Photographs (2005), Eamonn McCabe: Sports Photographer (1982) and Decade (2010).