March 03, 2010

Oxford American Named Finalist for National Magazine Award

The Oxford American's original video series, SoLost, today was selected as among five finalists for a National Magazine Award.

At only eight months old, SoLost is competing in the Video category with National Geographic; T, The New York Times Style Magazine; Reason; and Yale Environment 360.

"The Oxford American is honored to receive this recognition," said Warwick Sabin, publisher of The Oxford American. "It not only confirms our standing among the best magazines in the nation, but it also demonstrates that The Oxford American is a leader in presenting content across multiple media formats."

SoLost is directed and photographed by Dave Anderson.

Sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the National Magazine Awards were established in 1966 and have long been recognized as the preeminent awards for magazine journalism.

The awards will be presented at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City on March 18, 2010.

ABOUT DAVE ANDERSON

Dave Anderson has been recognized as "one of the shooting stars of the American photo scene" by Germany’s fotoMAGAZIN and named a "Rising Star" by Photo District News. A multi-talented image-maker, Dave worked in the Clinton White House and at MTV before discovering photography. His acclaimed first project, “Rough Beauty” was the winner of the 2005 National Project Competition awarded by Center, Santa Fe and was published with an essay by Anne Wilkes Tucker. Vince Aletti of the New Yorker has called his work "as clear-eyed and unsentimental as it is soulful and sympathetic." Anderson’s work has been featured in magazines from Esquire to Stern and can be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans; the Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. As a filmmaker, Dave’s original video series, "SoLost," shot for The Oxford American, was recently named a finalist at the 2010 National Magazine Awards.

ABOUT THE OXFORD AMERICAN

The Oxford American is a national magazine that is dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South.  Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992. The magazine has featured the original work of such literary powerhouses as Charles Portis, Roy Blount, Jr., ZZ Packer, Donald Harington, Donna Tartt, Ernest J. Gaines, and many other distinguished authors, while also discovering and launching the most promising writers in the region. The magazine has also published previously unseen work by such Southern masters as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, James Agee, Zora Neale Hurston, James Dickey, Carson McCullers, to name just a handful. The New York Times recently stated that The Oxford American "may be the liveliest literary magazine in America."