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The Infinity Awards were inaugurated in 1985 by the International Center of Photography "to bring public attention to outstanding achievements in photography by honoring individuals with distinguished careers in the field and by identifying future luminaries."

The Infinity Awards ceremony is ICP's primary fund-raising benefit, and the revenues generated assist the full range of the Center's programs, including exhibitions, collections, community outreach, and the ICP School.

The Cornell Capa, Lifetime Achievement, and ICP Trustees Award recipients are specially elected each year. Other recipients are chosen by a Selection Committee from the submissions of an International Nominating Committee, whose members change each year.

The Infinity Award, designed by Louis Dorfsman, is a replica of a sprocketed 35 mm film fashioned into an infinity symbol, embedded in a Lucite rectangle and inscribed with the recipient's name. This symbol was chosen "because the possibilities of the photographic medium are virtually infinite."

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List of Awards

  • Lifetime Achievement
  • Cornell Capa Award
  • Getty Images Lifetime Achievement
  • ICP Trustees Award
  • Master of Photography
  • Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography
  • Applied Photography
  • Photojournalism
  • Art
  • Writing
  • Publication
  • Design
  • Young Photographer
  • Special Commendations

List of Award Winners

Lifetime Achievement

Cornell Capa Award

The Cornell Capa Award (created in 2000) is named after the founder of the ICP, Cornell Capa. Those who have won the award are among the leading documentary photographers of their generation.

Getty Images Lifetime Achievement

ICP Trustees Award

Master of Photography

Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography

Applied Photography

Photojournalism

Art

Writing

Publication

  • 2008 - An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar. Taryn Simon.
  • 2007 - Sommes-Nous?. Tendance Floue.
  • 2006 - Things As They Are, Photojournalism in Context Since 1955. Chris Boot Ltd.
  • 2005 - Lodz Ghetto Album: Photographys by Henryk Ross. Chris Boot Ltd.
  • 2004 - Diane Arbus: Revelations, Doon Arbus and Elizabeth Sussman. Random House.
  • 2003 - Hide That Can, Deirdre O'Callaghan. Trolley Ltd.
  • 2002 - Kiosk: A History of Photojournalism, Robert Lebeck and Bodo von Dewitz. Steidl.
  • 2001 - Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology, Jeff L. Rosenheim and Douglas Eklund. Scalo.
  • 2000 - Sumo, Helmut Newton. Taschen.
  • 1999 - Juárez: The Laboratory of Our Future, Charles Bowden. Aperture.
  • 1998 - REQUIEM by the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina, Horst Faas and Tim Page, Editors. Random House.
  • 1997 - The Killing Fields, Chris Riley and Douglas Niven, Editors. Twin Palms Publishers.
  • 1996 - The Silence, Gilles Peress. Scalo.
  • 1995 - Americans We, Photographs and Notes, Eugene Richards. Aperture.
  • 1994 - Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age, Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado. Aperture.
  • 1993 - The New York School of Photographs 1936–1963, Jane Livingston. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc.
  • 1992 - Passage, Irving Penn. Alfred A. Knopf and Callaway Editions.
  • 1991 - Unguided Tour, Sylvia Plachy. Aperture.
  • 1990 - On the Art of Fixing a Shadow. Bulfinch Press.
  • 1989 - Exiles, Josef Koudelka. Centre National de la Photographie.
  • 1988 - Desert Cantos, Richard Misrach. University of New Mexico Press.
  • 1987 - New York to Nova Scotia, Robert Frank. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  • 1986 - Let Truth Be the Prejudice, W. Eugene Smith. Aperture.
  • 1985 - Photo Poche. Centre National de la Photographie.

Design

Young Photographer

Special Commendations

The following individuals have also been recognized for significant contributions to photography.

  • 2002 - Special Recognition, The New York Times, "Portraits of Grief"
  • 1999 - Special Award, Professor L. Fritz Gruber
  • 1994 - Special Citation, Charles Kuralt
  • 1991 - Special Citation, Kazuo Suzuki
  • 1990 - Curatorial Achievement, Grace Mayer
  • 1988 - Certificate of Merit, Wu Yinxian

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