Nine Masters of Photography
Various Artists
Hasselblad Foundation
English
Hardcover
21 pages
240 x 220 mm
1989
ISBN Not Available
This book is a retrospective of nine previous recipients of the Hasselblad Award. Published in 1989, it accompanied an exhibition which took place from the 25th of September to the 29th of October of the same year. Artists included are Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edouard Boubat, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ernst Haas, Hiroshi Hamaya, Lennart Nilsson, Irving Penn and Sebastiao Salgado.
About the Publisher
F.W. Hasselblad & Co was founded in 1841 by Fritz Viktor Hasselblad – Victor Hasselblad’s great-grandfather – and initially sold various products such as fabrics, sewing accessories and domestic utensils. The company relocated to the newly built Hasselbladshuset building on Lille Bommen in Gothenburg in the 1870s. Over the following decade, it began importing photographic products, eventually becoming the Swedish retailer for Eastman Kodak Co.
It was only natural for Victor Hasselblad, whose formative years were spent in this environment of cameras and photographs, to develop an intense interest in photography. In 1937, he founded the company AB Victor Hasselblad and opened a shop named Victor Foto on Kungsportsplatsen square in Gothenburg.
After Victor Hasselblad died in 1978, Erna and Victor Hasselblad’s Foundation was founded in 1979 in accordance with the couple’s last will and testament. The Foundation promotes research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. This is achieved by awarding grants and stipends to the natural sciences and photography, a prestigious international photography award and stipends and grants to research projects in photography.
The Foundation also conducts its own research into photography. The Hasselblad Center opened in 1989. The Hasselblad Foundation’s research library opened in 1999.
hasselbladfoundation.org
(Source: https://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/wp/exhibitions/)
