HASSELBLAD AWARD.The recipient of the 1999 Erna and Victor Hasselblad Victor Hasselblad (born March 8 1906, Gothenburg Sweden – August 5, 1978) was a Swedish inventor and photographer, known for inventing the Hasselblad 6x6 cm single-lens reflex camera. Foundation International Award in Photography is Cindy Sherman. Sherman was born in New Jersey in 1954 and grew up in Long Island. She graduated from Buffalo State College Buffalo State College, often referred to colloquially as Buff State, is a public, liberal arts college in Buffalo, New York and is part of the State University of New York. in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of in 1976 and moved to New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. soon after. In 1980 Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" series (197780) was exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the and at Metro Pictures in New York City. Often grainy grain·y adj. grain·i·er, grain·i·est 1. Made of or resembling grain; granular. 2. Resembling the grain of wood. 3. Having a granular appearance due to the clumping of particles in the emulsion. and high in contrast, these photographs recreated the look of publicity stills for B movies with Sherman herself playing the role of the main character in various scenarios. The Foundation proclaims that through this and other early work Sherman "set a new agenda for contemporary photography." Throughout the 1980s and '90s Sherman continued to challenge cultural and social preconceptions by exploring the position and representation of women in a society dominated by media and consumer culture. Her "Untitled Series" (fairy tales This is a list of fairy tales, the dates of their earliest known printed version, the author and, if known, the collection of tales in which it was published. It should be noted, however, that not all stories listed below would be categorized as fairy tales by a strict definition ) (1985) and "History Portraits" (1989-90) explored the division between the real and the imaginary while simultaneously commenting on the position of women in history. Her sex pictures series of 1992 was made in response to the heightened conflict over censorship and the representation of sexuality in artwork at the time. The Hasselbiad Foundation distinguishes Sherman's work as iconic in contemporary art. As part of the first wave of postmodernists to investigate politics and gender issues in her work, Sherman helped shape our understanding of Western visual culture. The Foundation further commends Sherman for being "a significant 're-inventor' of two important traditions in photographic art--photosurrealism of the 1930s and the photo-based conceptual art of the 1960s. Cindy Sherman's influence on successive generations of artists and photographers has been, and continues to be, immense." On March 4 Sherman will receive a cash prize of 500,000 Swedish Kronas (U.S. $58,825), a gold medal and a diploma at a ceremony in Goteborg, Sweden in conjunction with the opening of an exhibition of her work, curated and organized by the Hasselblad Center, and accompanied by a publication. |
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