Corlis Benefideo Winners
The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is pleased and proud to announce the winner of the second Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography: Rebecca Solnit. The award was announced at the NACIS conference in Minneapolis on October 16, 2015, and will be presented in person at the conference in October, 2016 in Colorado Springs.
Rebecca Solnit is an acclaimed writer with a varied career. A contributing editor at Harper’s, she has published seventeen books about the environment, landscape, community, art, politics, and stories. The award committee selected her particularly for her two published atlases, Infinte City, about San Francisco, and Unfathomable City, about New Orleans. A third atlas, about New York, will be published in 2016. The books are a combination of on-the-ground, fact-based cartographic realism and eloquent and poetic dialogue about place. They bring to mature fruition a vision of roots-based, personal and evocative mapping suggested by critics of the field for more than a quarter century, and so present a model for other cartographers to play off of in our daily work.
2015–2016
Rebecca Solnit
2013
Helen & Newton Harrison
The Harrison Studio
