Hasselblad Foundation Award
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Alfredo Jaar , award winner 2020
The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography is a prize given to photographers in recognition of significant achievements. The award, endowed with 1,000,000 Swedish crowns (approx. 100,000 €), has been awarded since 1980 by the Swedish foundation of the same name, which was founded by Erna and Victor Hasselblad , Victor Hasselblad was the inventor of the Hasselblad Camera System. The award is considered to be the most important award in photography worldwide.
Award winners
- 1980 Lennart Nilsson
- 1981 Ansel Adams
- 1982 Henri Cartier-Bresson
- 1983 not awarded
- 1984 Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- 1985 Irving Penn
- 1986 Ernst Haas
- 1987 Hiroshi Hamaya
- 1988 Edouard Boubat
- 1989 Sebastião Salgado
- 1990 William Klein
- 1991 Richard Avedon
- 1992 Josef Koudelka
- 1993 Sune Jonsson
- 1994 Susan Meiselas
- 1995 Robert Häusser
- 1996 Robert Frank
- 1997 Christer Strömholm
- 1998 William Eggleston
- 1999 Cindy Sherman
- 2000 Boris Mikhailov
- 2001 Hiroshi Sugimoto
- 2002 Jeff Wall
- 2003 Malick Sidibé
- 2004 Bernd and Hilla Becher
- 2005 Lee Friedlander
- 2006 David Goldblatt
- 2007 Nan Goldin
- 2008 Graciela Iturbide
- 2009 Robert Adams
- 2010 Sophie Calle
- 2011 Walid Raad
- 2012 Paul Graham
- 2013 Joan Fontcuberta
- 2014 Miyako Ishiuchi
- 2015 Wolfgang Tillmans
- 2016 Stan Douglas
- 2017 Rineke Dijkstra
- 2018 Óscar Muñoz
- 2019 Daidō Moriyama
- 2020 Alfredo Jaar
literature
- Alfried Wieczorek , Claude W. Sui (Ed.): World Stars of Photography - The Prize Winners of the Hasselblad Foundation . Mannheim 2008: Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums . ISBN 978-3-927774-23-0