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The Hasselblad Award (in full: Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography) is an award granted to "a photographer recognized for major achievements".
*1980 Lennart Nilsson
*1981
History
The award—and theHasselblad Foundation
The Hasselblad Foundation (in full: Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation), established in 1979 at the will of Victor Hasselblad, is a fully independent, not-for-profit foundation based at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The main aim of the Fou ...
—was set up from the estate of Erna and Victor Hasselblad. Victor Hasselblad was the inventor of the Hasselblad
Victor Hasselblad AB is a Swedish manufacturer of medium format cameras, photographic equipment and image scanners based in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company originally became known for its classic analog medium-format cameras that used a waist ...
Camera System.
The award includes a cash prize of SEK 2,000,000 (~€200,000), a gold medal, diploma, and an exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in the Göteborg Museum of Art in Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...
, Sweden.
Winners
*1980 Lennart Nilsson
*1981 Ansel Adams
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*1982 Henri Cartier-Bresson
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*1984 Manuel Álvarez Bravo
*1985 Irving Penn
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*1986 Ernst Haas
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*1987 Hiroshi Hamaya
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*1988 Édouard Boubat
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Life and work
Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printin ...
*1989 Sebastião Salgado
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He has traveled in over 120 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these have appeared in numerous press pu ...
*1990 William Klein
*1991 Richard Avedon
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*1992 Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), ...
*1993 Sune Jonsson
Olov Sune Jonsson (20 December 1930 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish documentary photographer and writer, recipient of the Hasselblad Award in 1993.
Jonsson was born in Nyåker outside Nordmaling in the province of Västerbotten, Sweden. After ...
*1994 Susan Meiselas
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*1995 Robert Häusser
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Häusser's career as a photographer began in post-war Germany during his time working on a farm. Consequentially many of his first studies included farm landscapes a ...
*1996 Robert Frank
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*1997 Christer Strömholm
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*1998 William Eggleston
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*1999 Cindy Sherman
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Her breakthrough work is often co ...
*2000 Boris Mikhailov Boris Mikhailov may refer to:
* Boris Mikhailov (Comintern), representative of the Communist International to the US in 1929-30
* Boris Mikhailov (photographer) (born 1938), fine art photographer
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*2001 Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Early life and education
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs ...
*2002 Jeff Wall
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*2003 Malick Sidibé
Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) was a Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, Mali, and was a well-known fig ...
*2004 Bernd and Hilla Becher
Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their e ...
*2005 Lee Friedlander
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*2006 David Goldblatt
David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid.Weinberg, Paul.David Goldblatt: Photographer Who Found the Human in an Inhuman ...
*2007 Nan Goldin
Nancy Goldin (born September 12, 1953) is an American photographer and activist. Her work often explores LGBT subcultures, moments of intimacy, the HIV/AIDS crisis, and the opioid epidemic. Her most notable work is '' The Ballad of Sexual Depe ...
*2008 Graciela Iturbide
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Biograp ...
*2009 Robert Adams
*2010 Sophie Calle
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*2011 Walid Raad
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*2012 Paul Graham
*2013
* 2014 Miyako Ishiuchi
, is a Japanese photographer.
In 2005, she represented Japan at the Venice Biennale. In March 2014, she became the third Japanese photographer, following Hiroshi Hamaya and Hiroshi Sugimoto, to received the Hasselblad Foundation International A ...
* 2015 Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations.
Tillmans was the first photog ...
*2016 Stan Douglas
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Douglas' film and video installations, photography and work in television frequently touch on the history of literature, cinema and music, while examining ...
*2017 Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam.
*2018 Oscar Muñoz
*2019
Daidō Moriyama
is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine '' Provoke''. Moriyama’s rough, unfettered photographic style makes use of sharply tilted angles, grain ...
*2020 Alfredo Jaar
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*2022 Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh (born 18 March 1961) is an Indian photographer whose primary format is the book. She has published fourteen books.
Singh's art reflects and expands on the ways in which people relate to photographic images. Her later works, draw ...
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