Chris Buck is the winner of the first annual ASMP Arnold Newman Prize, awarded each year to recognize work that is grounded in the traditions and values of Arnold Newman’s portrait photography. This year’s prize includes $2,500 cash donated by Getty and a Canon EOS 30D camera.

ASMP Press Release

CHRIS BUCK TO RECEIVE 2007 ASMP ARNOLD NEWMAN PRIZE

“We don’t take pictures with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds.”
—Arnold Newman

On May 17, 2007, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) will present the first annual ASMP Arnold Newman Prize to photographer Chris Buck. The prize is awarded each year to recognize work that is grounded in the traditions and values of Arnold Newman’s portrait photography.

The prize is being generously supported by Canon USA, Getty Images and Photo District News. The recipient is selected from among the top-scoring portrait submissions in PDN’s Photography Annual Competition. This year’s prize includes $2,500 cash donated by Getty and a Canon EOS 30D camera.

Chris Buck is a longtime admirer of Newman’s work. While based in Toronto, he attended a Newman lecture at Ryerson University, then asked the master if he could make a quick portrait. This image, and a subsequent phone interview between Newman and Buck, can be viewed on the ASMP Web site at

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Buck moved to New York in 1990 and quickly established himself in editorial and commercial circles for environmental portraits of leading personalities. His images are renown for an offbeat sense of humor and seeming ease of approach. Buck’s clients include Microsoft, Citibank, Moviefone, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire and New York Magazine. He is represented by Julian Richards.

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”
—Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was a unique and visionary master of the art of photography, who created and took to its highest form the genre of the environmental portrait—that is, a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as the home or workplace.

Additional information about Newman is available on the ASMP web site at http://www.asmp.org/60th/interview_arnold_newman.php
http://www.asmp.org/news/newslines_2006-06.php#newman

About ASMP
Founded in 1944, the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) is the leading trade association for photographers who photograph primarily for publication. ASMP promotes photographers’ rights, educates photographers in better business practices, produces business publications for photographers, and helps buyers find professional photographers. It has more than 5,500 members, including many of the world’s greatest photographers, in 39 chapters nationwide.

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