The annual awards program in photography and moving image books is to announce its winners on June 1 and 3.
‘Untitled (Sosa With Orange Hula Hoop),’ 2019 by Tyler Mitchell, from the longlisted ‘I Can Make You Feel Good’ by Tyler Mitchell, from Prestel Publishing. Image: Provided by Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Picture Book Awards
‘A Reflection of Contemporary Society’
As Publishing Perspectives readers will recall, the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation was formed in 1985 by the late Hungarian photographer Andor Kraszna-Krausz the founder in 1938 of the Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis/Routledge based in media tech books.
Its 2021 Photography Book Award and Moving Image Book Award shortlists have been announced today from London (May 4). Winners are to be named on June 1 and 3, in association with London’s The Photographers’ Gallery near Covent Garden.
The annual awards program in photography and moving image books is to announce its winners on June 1 and 3.
‘Untitled (Sosa With Orange Hula Hoop),’ 2019 by Tyler Mitchell, from the longlisted ‘I Can Make You Feel Good’ by Tyler Mitchell, from Prestel Publishing. Image: Provided by Kraszna-Krausz Photography and Moving Picture Book Awards
‘A Reflection of Contemporary Society’
As Publishing Perspectives readers will recall, the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation was formed in 1985 by the late Hungarian photographer Andor Kraszna-Krausz the founder in 1938 of the Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis/Routledge based in media tech books.
Its 2021 Photography Book Award and Moving Image Book Award shortlists have been announced today from London (May 4). Winners are to be named on June 1 and 3, in association with London’s The Phographers’ Gallery near Covent Garden.
Mank in the Best Picture category.
But what of the Academy Awards in days gone past? Which films have won the most trophies or scored the highest number of nominations? And who among the acting cohort has been the most successful when it comes to the event? We decided to dig into the history and look at the most successful films at the Oscars, the performers who have gone home with the most gongs, and a full list of every Best Picture Winner in history so far. Oscar facts! Get yer Oscar facts here!
Which films have won the most Oscars?
Pathé news, ice creams. and cuddles on the double seats
THROWBACK THURSDAY: More of your memories of going to the cinema back in the day as JO KERRIGAN recalls the news reels, ice cream treats. and the odd romance!
BIG TREAT: Children queue to see ‘David Copperfield’ at the Savoy Cinema, Cork, in 1936
Jo Kerrigan
YOUR tales of going to the pictures are endless and every new anecdote is fascinating.
Last week Dermot Knowles regaled us with his lively memories of cinema-going in the 1950s and ’60s, and even thought up a quiz for Throwback Thursday readers.
Remember the newsreels which kept us up to date with world affairs, he asked? Which Cork cinemas showed Movietone News, Look At Life, and Pathé News?
Autumn Leaves (1956) is interesting in how its two genres struggle with each other rather than blend.
When the Criterion Channel put together its “Frame of Mind” collection of films about psychiatry, it included two Joan Crawford films: 1947 s
Possessed, a noir melodrama, and
Autumn Leaves, from 1956. Another melodrama with noir elements,
Autumn Leaves is less successful than
Possessed but still interesting for the way its two genres struggle with each other rather than blend, and the way psychiatry’s invoked not just to tie up the plot but to resolve the tensions of the film’s story.
Directed by Robert Aldrich from a script by Jean Rouverol and Hugo Butler (who, blacklisted, were credited together as “Jack Jevne”), Lewis Meltzer, and Robert Blees, it’s the story of Millie Wetherby (Crawford), a lonely typist in Los Angeles. We see her isolation, and then see her meet Burt Hanson (Cliff Robertson). The significantly younger Burt takes a romantic interest i