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(David Davis, author of Wheels of Courage, won a 2021 Christopher Award.)
Los Angeles-based author David Davis received a Christopher Award for Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation (Center Street/Hachette Book Group). It is one of 12 books for adults and young people by 17 authors and illustrators honored as the Awards mark their 72nd year. The authors join creators of 10 winning TV/Cable and feature films.
Davis recounted the time when paraplegics injured in World War II were considered lost causes. Nevertheless doctors and determined veterans invented innovative wheelchair sports, created medical advances, and fought for disability rights.
MoMA announces transformative gift of photographs by women artists from the Helen Kornblum Collection
Frances Benjamin Johnston. Penmanship Class. 1899. Platinum print, 7 3/8 × 9 3/8″ (18.7 × 23.8 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci.
NEW YORK, NY
.-The Museum of Modern Art has received a major gift of 100 photographs from the Helen Kornblum Collection, adding significant examples of women artists pioneering achievements across the field. The collectionincluding avantgarde experimentation, photojournalism, social documentary, commercial studio photography, and advertising, among other practicesis filled with both rare and important works and lesser-known or under-represented examples spanning the history of the medium. The gift features iconic images from the early modernist period to today by such luminaries as Gertrud Arndt, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Laura Gilpin, Kati Horna, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and