The David Octavius Hill Medal is a prize in photography established in 1955, by the
Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. It is named in honor of the Scottish artist
David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 – 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer and arts activist. He formed Hill & Adamson studio with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of pho ...
, famous for his
Hill & Adamson
Hill & Adamson was the first photography studio in Scotland, set up by painter David Octavius Hill and engineer Robert Adamson in 1843. During their brief partnership that ended with Adamson's untimely death, Hill & Adamson produced "the first s ...
calotype
Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. Paper texture effects in calotype photography limit the ability of this early process to record low co ...
s, most of which were developed at Adamson's studio, the "Rock House", on Calton Hill in
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
.
Recipients
* 1955:
Walter Hege,
Carl Adolf Schleussner,
Erich Stenger,
Bruno Uhl
* 1957:
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 – September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity.
Biography
Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in the F ...
* 1958:
Erna Lendvai-Dircksen
* 1964:
Herbert List
Herbert List (7 October 1903 – 4 April 1975) was a German photographer, who worked for magazines, including ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', ''Harper's Bazaar'', and ''Life (magazine), Life'', and was associated with Magnum Photos. His austere, class ...
* 1965:
Otto Steinert
Otto Steinert (12 July 1915 – 3 March 1978) was a German photographer.
Life and work
Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Steinert was a medical doctor by profession and was self-taught in photography. After World War II, he initially worked for t ...
* 1966:
Martin Hürlimann
* 1967:
Paul Strand
Paul Strand (October 16, 1890 – March 31, 1976) was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century. ...
* 1968:
Fritz Gruber
* 1969:
Liselotte Strelow
* 1970:
Allan Porter
* 1971:
Edouard Boubat
* 1972:
Regina Relang
* 1973:
J.A. Schmoll, gen. Eisenwerth
* 1974:
Fritz Kempe
Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridolin ...
* 1978:
Heinz Hajek-Halke
Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898–1983) was a German experimental photographer and educator who co-founded the Fotoform group with Otto Steinert.
Life and work
Heinz Hajek-Halke, born in Berlin, Germany in 1898, the son of Paul Halke. He spent part of ...
,
Willi Moegle
* 1979:
Fritz Brill,
Kurt Julius
* 1981:
Peter Keetman
Peter Keetman (April 27, 1916 – March 8, 2005) was a German photographer.
Life and career
Peter Keetman was born in 1916 in Elberfeld. He was part of a very wealthy family and his father Alfred Keetman was bank director of the banking hous ...
* 1983:
Helmut Gernsheim
Helmut Erich Robert Kuno Gernsheim (1 March 1913 – 20 July 1995) was a historian of photography, a collector and a photographer.
Early life and education
Born in Munich, Germany, he was the third son of the academic librarian Karl Gernsheim an ...
* 1984:
Robert Häusser
* 1986:
John Hilliard
* 1988:
* 1990:
Stefan Moses
* 1994:
Jürgen Heinemann,
Klaus Kammerichs
* 1996:
Gottfried Jäger
Gottfried Jäger (born 13 May 1937 in Magdeburg) is a German photographer, photo-theorist and former university teacher.
Biography
Gottfried Jäger, son of photographer Ernst Jäger (1913-1998), learned the craft of photography in the years 1954 ...
* 1999:
Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt (born 3 March 1935 in Niemegk) is a German photographer, painter, sculptor and video artist.
He studied music from 1954 to 1958 in the Mendelssohn Bartholdy Akademie in Leipzig. There, he discovers and develops a strong interest for ...
* 2002:
Alex Webb
* 2005:
Bernhard Prinz
* 2009:
Joakim Eskildsen,
Cia Rinne
* 2015:
Viviane Sassen
Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam. She is a photographer who works in both the fashion and fine art world. She is known for her use of geometric shapes, often abstractions of bodies. She has been widely published an ...
* 2019: Ute & Werner Mahler
References
Träger der David-Octavius-Hill-Medaille(German). Accessed January 24, 2010.
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