Fred Ritchin is the director of PixelPress.org, a former editor at the New York Times, and the author of several books. He served as Associate Professor of photography and communications at the Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts

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 at New York University

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. He has been widely quoted on the difficulty of verifying whether photographs accurately depict events in the digital age.

Books

• After Photography: W.W. Norton & Co. (December 17, 2008)
• In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture, 1990 [reissued 1999]). *Co-author of An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado
  Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist.-Biography:Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in...
  
  (Aperture, 1990)
• In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (W. W. Norton, 1989)
• Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, 1850-1990 (W. W. Norton, 1993).

Essays

Essays by Ritchin appear in the following books:

• Photo Video: Photography in the Age of the Computer (1991)
• A New History of Photography (1994)
• National Geographic Photos: Milestones (1999)
• Sahel: Man in Distress (2004)
• Under Fire: Great Photographers and Writers on the Vietnam War (2005)
• The Critical Image (1990).
• Felice Beato: Photographer of the Eastern Road (2010)

Exhibits curated

• Contemporary Latin American Photographers (1987)
• An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado (1990)
• The Legacy of W. Eugene Smith: Twelve Photographers in the Humanistic Tradition (1991)
• Mexico Through Foreign Eyes: Photographs, 1850-1990 (1992).

Awards

• Markle Foundation grant (1993–1994)
• Presidential Fellowship for Junior Faculty (1994)
• David Payne-Carter Award for Teaching Excellence (1995)
• Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service by the New York Times for the Web site, "Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace"(1997).
• Hasselblad Foundation Grant (1999) for future web project "Witnessing and the Web: An Experiment in Documentary Photography”

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