Call for Progress Medal Award nominees

The Progress Medal Award Committee asks your assistance in locating candidates for consideration for the highest award the Photographic Society of America (PSA) presents annually, the PSA Progress Medal.

Each year the Society makes this award to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to the art and/or science of photography or an allied field. The candidate must be living and need not be a member of the Society or for that matter a photographer. Typical considerations include, but are not limited to, inventors, chemists, engineers, lecturers, teachers, etc. The individual must, however, have made a contribution to photography or an allied field that is very significant. The award may be given to co-recipients in the case of a team effort.

The Progress Medal is not necessarily awarded for proficiency or achievement in photography, but his or her contribution should provide devices, materials, techniques or understanding, that make possible new or improved versions of photographic capability.

The 2005 Progress Medal was awarded to Dr. Larry J. Hornbeck for his multiple achievements in electronics including the invention of the DMD chip used in projection technology. In 2004 the award went to David Muench for his superior accomplishment as a landscape photographer. Other recent honorees included Thomas and John Knoll, Adobe Photoshop; Lennart Nilsson, medical photography; and Jack Kilby (Nobel Prize winner) for his work with integrated circuits.

The members of the Committee are dedicated to searching out deserving individuals and as such solicit your help. If you know of someone meeting the qualifications for this high honor, send his or her name with an outline of the contribution before March 1st to:

Tom Icklan

18 Donatello Dr., Manchester, NJ 08759 Or, send e-mail to ticklan@aol.com

Tom Icklan

Manchester, New Jersey

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