HOWARD CHAPNICK GRANT IS AWARDED TO Richard Steven Street

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Richard Steven Street of California was announced as the recipient of the 2009 Howard Chapnick Grant for the advancement of photojournalism. Richard Steven Street is a photographer/writer/historian who resides in San Anselmo,California specializing in agricultural photography. His project is a book to be published in 2011 titled: Subversive Images: Leonard Nadel’s Massive and Unknown Photo Essay on Braceros in 1956.” It is a work of photographic history with strong and disturbing images of Mexican braceros working in the fields of California under abusive and humiliating condition in the 1950s. The book recreates the work of one of the best but unheralded California photographers, Leonard Nadel.