2000 Eisenstaedt Award Winners

1. Cover of Year
WINNER
Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, November 1999, The Naked Truth

RUNNERS-UP
Chuck Close, The New York Times Magazine, May 30, 1999, Hillary, Herself
Sam Jones, Esquire, October 1999, A Man Among Men
Dan Winters, The New York Times Magazine, February 14, 1999, Steven Spielberg, In Black and White

2. News (Single Image)
WINNER
George Kochaniec Jr., LIFE, June 1999, Colorado

RUNNERS-UP
Yannis Kontos, Newsweek, March 1, 1999, A Kurdish Inferno
Burhan Ozbilici, Newsweek, August 30, 1999, The Big One
Chris Usher, Newsweek, February 22, 1999, The Survivor

3. News (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Joachim Ladefoged, The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1999, Exodus

RUNNERS-UP
Gary Fabiano, Blue, August 1999, Bearing Witness
James Nachtwey, Time, December 7, 1998, Descent into Madness
Larry Towell, The New York Times Magazine, December 6, 1998, Rebuilding Honduras

4. Journalistic Impact (Single Image)
WINNER
James Nachtwey, Time, June 7, 1999, Outside Kosovo

RUNNERS-UP
Jerome Delay, Time, June 28, 1999, Crimes of War
Steve Starr, Newsweek, May 3, 1999, Anatomy of a Massacre

5. Journalistic Impact (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Gilles Peress, The New Yorker, July 19, 1999, Exile and Return

RUNNERS-UP
Donna DeCesare, Mother Jones, July-August 1999, Deporting America's Gang Culture
Jenny Matthews, Mother Jones, December 1999, Under the Gun
Charles M. Ommanney, Texas Monthly, April 1999, No One Knows.

6. The Way We Live (Single Image)
WINNER
Mark Peterson, LIFE, February 1999, Sobriety High

RUNNERS-UP
Shelby Lee Adams, The New York Times Magazine, August 29, 1999, What They Were Thinking
O. Rufus Lovett, Texas Monthly, December 1998, There's Something About Weeping Mary
Gary Walts, The Sun, June 1999, Photographs

7. The Way We Live (Photo Essay)
WINNER
David Alan Harvey, National Geographic, June and October 1999, Cuba

RUNNERS-UP
Ernesto Bazan, Camera Arts, June-July 1999, The Special Period in Cuba
Randy Olson, Mother Jones, May-June 1999, The Lucky One
Dean Tokuno, Camera Arts, February-March 1999, Dad

8. Nature (Single Image)
WINNER
J. Pat Carter, Time, May 17, 1999, Funnel of Death

RUNNERS-UP
David Doubilet, Audubon, May-June 1999, The Fish Eye
George Steinmetz, National Geographic, March 1999, Journey to the Heart of the Sahara
Stephen Wilkes, The New York Times Magazine, October 10, 1999, Elegy to a Dumpscape

9. Nature (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Art Wolfe, Audubon, March-April 1999, Hidden Existence

RUNNERS-UP
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Condé Nast Traveler, August 1999, The Birdman Reports
James Balog, Discover, December 1999, Eye of the Beast
Steven Smith, DoubleTake, Fall 1999, Vacancy

10. Science (Single Image)
WINNER
Max Aguilera-Hellweg, LIFE, December 1999, Born Twice

RUNNER-UP
Axel Mellinger, Sky & Telescope, November 1999, There's No Place Like Home

11. Science (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Gary Schneider, The New York Times Magazine, October 17, 1999, Inside Out

12. Sports (Single Image)
WINNER
Stuart MacFarlane, Sports Illustrated, October 11, 1999, Socket Wrench

RUNNERS-UP
Jamie Schwaberow, Sports Illustrated, May 3, 1999, Blind Ambition
Clint Karlsen, ESPN The Magazine, November 29, 1999, Rope-a-Grope
Heinz Kluetmeier, Sports Illustrated, February 15, 1999, Fur Will Fly

13. Sports (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Gregory Heisler, ESPN The Magazine, September 6, 1999, Pump it Up

RUNNER-UP
Various photographers (Guy Aroch, Julian Broad, Sam Jones, Nadav Kander, Kurt Markus, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Martin Schoeller, Mark Seliger, Isabel Snyder, Fred Woodward), Rolling Stone, June 10, 1999, Champions '99

14. Portrait (Single Image)
WINNER
Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, December 1999, The Sopranos

RUNNERS-UP
Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, December 1999, Lance Armstrong
Annie Leibovitz, Vanity Fair, November 1999, Split Personality
Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, December 1998, The Extraordinary Hillary Clinton

15. Portrait (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Richard Avedon, The New Yorker, February 22 & March 1, 1999, The New Yorkers

RUNNERS-UP
Bruce Davidson, Esquire, August 1999, Being Max Cleland
Steven Klein, W, July 1999, Brad Pitt
David LaChapelle, Vanity Fair, September 1999, Return From Planet Pee-Wee

16. Fashion (Single Image)
WINNER
Steven Meisel, Vogue, December 1998, The 12 Days of Christmas

RUNNERS-UP
Stephane Sednaoui, Jane, December 1999, Your Ad Here
Juergen Teller, W, December 1999, Home Alone

17. Fashion (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Annie Leibovitz, Vogue, October 1999, Puffy Takes Paris

RUNNERS-UP
Tina Barney, W, October 1999, New York Stories
Taryn Simon, Flaunt, August 1999, Forest Manor
Michael Thompson, W, March 1999, Time and Again

18. Still Life and Illustration (Single Image)
WINNER
Catherine Chalmers, The New York Times Magazine, September 19, 1999, Hello, Columbus

RUNNER-UP
Andres Serrano, The New York Times Magazine, May 16, 1999, Power Suffering

19. Still Life and Illustration (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Geof Kern, Joe, Number 1, 1999, Trust Me

RUNNER-UP
James Wojcik, House & Garden, April 1999, Mood Swings

20. Architecture (Single Image)
WINNER
Dom Furore, Golf Digest, May 1999, Night Visions

RUNNER-UP
Becky Cohen, Architectural Record, November 1999, A Lens into the Gardens of Le Nôtre

21. Architecture (Photo Essay)
WINNER
Robert Polidori, The New Yorker, March 8, 1999, Far Out

RUNNERS-UP
Diane Cook, Nest, Spring 1999, Southern Gothic
Laurie Simmons, Nest, Winter, 1999-2000, A House Without Dolls

22. Travel (Single Image)
WINNER
Brigitte Lacombe, Condé Nast Traveler, May 1999, Lisbon Awakens

RUNNERS-UP
Knut Bry, Condé Nast Traveler, February 1999, Beyond the Sun
Joe McBride, Men's Journal, December 1999-January 2000, The Last Best Reef
Steve Simon, Harper's Magazine, December 1999, Big Cow

23. Travel (Photo Essay)
WINNER
James Whitlow Delano, Madison, November-December 1999, Middle Country

RUNNERS-UP
Bob Krist, National Geographic Traveler, May-June 1999, Tuscany
Jason Makowski, (T)here, Summer 1999, The Girl in Moon
Theo Westenberger, National Geographic Traveler, January-February 1999, Venice Masquerade

24. Digital (Single Image)
WINNER
Amy Guip, ESPN The Magazine, November 29, 1999, The Unkown Frank Williams

25. Digital (Photo Essay)
WINNER
John Huet, ESPN The Magazine, September 20, 1999, The Transformers

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