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A confrontation between two bulls wins the 1984 Kodak Award known as “Kinza”

A black-and-white snapshot of two bulls in the middle of a international road in Montana wins first prize in the 1984 Kodak International Snapshot Press Competition, known as KINSA for short. .
Referees - Kinza, commenting on this shot, said: The photographer saw something and was ready to capture it the moment it happened. This is the essence of snap shots in photography.
And after what Arthur Rotzstein, the assistant editor-in-chief of Dr. Parade magazine, said about the snapshots. It is the popular art of the twentieth century. Numerous examples of that art were presented through about 250 black and white shots and 550 color shots. They reached the final stage of the forty-ninth competition held by Kodak for snap shots. I came up with it - Kinza, 1984 out of 350,000 participants who send in their photos from all over the world.
Arthur adds, commenting: I think the amateur photographer gets better every year. Part of the improvement is due to those who produce the equipment that photographers use...it is equipment that turns out to be of such great quality that anything anyone watches can be put on film and this is the advantage of amateurs who aren't afraid to shoot something different.

The judges agreed that the participants demonstrated the increasing level of skill and sophistication, especially in the works of the first seven winners. Although none of these seven had ever participated in a Kinza-competition before, it turns out that four of them have their own darkrooms, and it turns out that Kodak "Tri-X" film was used to make all four of the first black-and-white images, including In that winning photo of the $10,000 prize; Codachrome 64 film was also used to make the first three color images.

The total amount presented by the judges of the Kodak 1984 competition amounted to 55 thousand dollars, with travel card prizes, which included 217 male and female winners.

Snapshots 1935-1984
Returning to the beginning of Kinza - we recall that over the years some newspapers have held annually or intermittently amateur snapshot competitions. In the year 1935, in recognition of the hundreds of thousands of amateur photographers in the United States of America, and through the contribution of 64 leading newspapers, the awards were announced. National press snapshots.
In that year, 125 cash prizes totaling ten thousand dollars were presented with a group of certificates of appreciation given to the outstanding students. The reaction was immediate, and the competition received comprehensive appreciation from amateur photo-takers and newspaper editors to or in the form of gifts for the best snapshots that are taken, Kodak I decided to make this competition annual.
The basic procedure for conducting the competition in 1935 was very similar to that adopted for the Kodak World Press Awards for Snapshots, 1984. The participating newspapers from several cities had already run their own preliminary competitions for six weeks or more. Every week, I decided to give out weekly cash prizes. At the end of the press competitions, each newspaper decided to select the four pictures (one in each of the four categories) that it considered the best. And I sent it to participate in the competition for the « National Journalism Awards for snapshots .

The categories in the early years were as follows: Category A - children and infants
Class B - class activities
C - views and surfaces of the category
D- Poultry and animals. In 1958, the color photo tables category was added for the first time. In 1984, the Kinza competition, sponsored by Kodak, included only two categories: color photographs; Where each contributing newspaper can submit two black and white photos and four color photos that it considers to be the best it has received to participate in the final competition.

The competition became international in the 1960s when newspapers from Mexico and Canada began participating in it and the name was changed to the International Blitz Press Awards, the name from which the expression KINSA originated, consisting of the first Latin letters of the name of the competition.
This year, "Kinza" entered its fiftieth year - its golden jubilee - and the enthusiasm for it is still as great as it was on the day of its inception in 1935. As for the jury, there is no doubt that it has changed over the years. In the beginning, the competition relied heavily on famous people to act as judges. This is to attract attention to a good start, and there is no doubt that this measure was successful, because these personalities did their duty to the fullest.

The Kodak World Press Awards for Snapshots invites judges recognized for their skill as photojournalists, editors, photographers....or both to select the winning images.

And since these competitions began 49 years ago, and the equivalent of 17 million photos participated in them
Later, these competitions became one of the most popular topics in the newspapers concerned during the summer, and over the years. Many of the winning photos in the competition were published in newspapers and magazines around the world, as in some cases people who won the prizes as amateurs became skilled enough in later years to become well-deserved professional photographers. The prize money Kodak distributed to them amounted to one million and 700 thousand dollars⏹

Arab amateurs

As for those who wish to participate in future competitions, they only have to write to the following address with the photos they wish to participate in:

Karen Martin , Kodak International News paper Snapshot Awards , Program Services , Con snmer - Professional Finishing Markets , Eastman Kodak Company , 343 State
Street, Rochester, New York 14650.