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A Winner Of Our Own

March 2023
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We are proud to announce that Emma Landau, our art director, was highly honored at the recent award dinner given by the prestigious Society of Publication Designers. She took the Award of Distinctive Merit for her layout of Daniel Kramer’s photographs of Death Valley in the October, 1973, issue. Then she went on to receive four certificates of merit for “The Late Late Silents,” December, !9731 “Gems of Symmetry and Convenience,” February, 1973; “Vanishing Heritage,” June, 1973; and War News from Mexico , the cover of our February, 1973, issue.

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