Hasselblad Award 1991
Richard Avedon
Hasselblad Foundation
English
Softcover
24 pages
220 x 240 mm
1991
Catalogue for the recipient of the 1991 Hasselblad award featuring a selection of Richard Avedon’s most famous portraits.
About the Artist
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was born and lived in New York City. His interest in photography began at an early age, and he joined the Young Men’s Hebrew Association (YMHA) camera club when he was twelve years old.
Throughout, Avedon ran a successful commercial studio, and is widely credited with erasing the line between “art” and “commercial” photography. His brand-defining work and long associations with Calvin Klein, Revlon, Versace, and dozens of other companies resulted in some of the best-known advertising campaigns in American history. These campaigns gave Avedon the freedom to pursue major projects in which he explored his cultural, political, and personal passions. He is known for his extended portraiture of the American Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam war and a celebrated cycle of photographs of his father, Jacob Israel Avedon.
avedonfoundation.org
(Source: https://www.avedonfoundation.org/)
About the publisher
The Hasselblad Foundation was founded by Erna and Victor Hasselblad’s in 1979. The Foundation aims to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. This is achieved by awarding stipends in the natural sciences and photography, the Hasselblad Award, photographic research and photography exhibitions. Since 1999, there is also a research library, currently the only photography book library in Sweden.
hasselbladfoundation.org
(Source: https://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/en/hasselblad-2/)
