Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anders Nygren wrote: > > Dan Cardish wrote: > > > > I don't think winning the Hasselblad Award requires use of a Hasselblad. > > Didn't Robert Frank win the award a few years ago? > > > > Dan C. > > > > Yes, in 1996 Robert Frank won it. > > Previous prize-winners have been: (Up to 1995) > > -Lennart Nilsson, Sweden; > -Ansel Adams, USA; > -Henri Cartier-Bresson, France; > -Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexico; > -Irving Penn, USA; > -Ernst Haas, USA; > -Hiroshi Hamaya, Japan; > -Edouard Boubat, France; > -SebastiÑo Salgado, Bra-zil/France; > -William Klein, USA/France; > -Richard Avedon, USA; > -Josef Koudelka, Czechoslovakia/France, > -Sune Jonsson, Sweden; > -Susan Meiselas, USA; and > -Robert Höusser, Germany. > > And some of You will be shocked to hear that the 1999 Hasselblad Award > went > to ........ ><Snip> You call these guys photographers?????!! Now Sune Jonsson, that's a photographer!!!? How about Harvey Schwartz?? now THAT's a photographer!! :) Mark :-) Rabiner