Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharp sense of history. Meanwhile, Weston was in business as a portrait photographer in Glendale, San Francisco and finally in Carmel, California. Among professionals his off-hour studies of dunes, shells and vegetables became noted for their miraculous clarity. In 1936 he won the first Guggenheim fellowship ever given a photographer...
Freed by his fellowship, leathery Edward Weston has covered 25,000 miles of California and New Mexico on sorties lasting two and three weeks from bases in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sick of human faces, he found his subjects in the surfaces of mountains and deserts. As Walker Evans' work fixes moments of a changing society, Weston's mirrors static Nature: the bleached bowl of Death Valley, with two black wheel tracks winding into it; elephant-textured granite in the Mojave Desert...
Choicest assignment any serious-minded newsman can get is a Lucius W. Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Founded in 1937 by a $1,000,000 bequest from the late Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, the Fellowships: 1) are open only to newspapermen with jobs; 2) pay each holder an amount approximating his regular salary, plus free tuition; 3) require no academic credits or examinations. Each applicant must satisfy Harvard that he has a definite study plan that will make him more useful to his community, his paper and himself when he goes back to work...
...Fellowship recipients have open to them all privileges generally tendered the members of the university. They are awarded stipends, in most cases, equivalent to their professional income, These fellowships are supported by the Lucius W. Nieman and Agnes Want Nieman Fund, and provide free tuition...
Until March 1, applications will be coming in from all parts of the country. While there are no actual stipulations as to age or formal education, all applicants are expected to have spent at least three years in journalistic work. Recipients of the fellowship awards will be studying during a leave of absence from their papers...