The 2002 Hasselblad Award in Photography has been presented to Canadian Photographer Jeff Wall. (Notes from the Field).
The 2002 Hasselblad Award The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography is an award granted to "a photographer recognized for major achievements". The award - and the foundation - was set up from the estate of Erna and Victor Hasselblad. In Photography has been presented to
Canadian Photographer Jeff Wall Jeff Wall (born Vancouver September 29 1946) is a Canadian photographer best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Overview . Trained as an art historian and known
for his expansive light boxes of staged scenes, Wall's works have
been exhibited for over 30 years in such venues as Musee d'art
contemporain de Montreal, the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by , the Whitney
Museum of Art and el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Reina Sofia (Queen Sophia) can refer to: or several buildings and places named after her: - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
- Tenerife South Airport (Reina Sofía)
in
Madrid. The Hasselblad Award is granted to "a photographer
recognized for major achievements." Wall's achievements were
stated by the judges as "using photography in a very innovative way
which has helped establish for the medium a major place in contemporary
art ... and truly make of him, in the words of Charles Baudelaire,
'a painter of modern life.'" Previous winners of the
Hasselblad Award include Ansel Adams (1981), Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. (1982), Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1984), Hiroshi Hamaya (1987), Sebastiao
Salgado (1989), Richard Avedon (1991), Cindy Sherman (1999) and Hiroshi
Sugimoto (2001). An exhibit of Wall's work will be on display at
Hasselblad Center, Goteborg Museum of Art through January 6, 2003. For
further information, visit www.hasselblad foundation.org
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