Adams at the ceremony in San Francisco. Photos by Daniel Cheek, Joshua Chuang and Lars AnderssonAlright, so this is a little old but it was news to me. Couldn't have gone to a better photographer though.
Robert Adams, U.S. Photographer, Wins $61,000 Hasselblad Award
By Niklas Magnusson
April 15 (Bloomberg) -- Robert Adams, the U.S. photographer known for his images of the American west, has won the 2009 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography.
Adams, who is based in Astoria, Oregon, received the 500,000 kronor ($61,000) prize at a ceremony in San Francisco yesterday, the foundation -- which is based in Gothenburg, Sweden -- said in an e-mailed statement issued today. It described Adams as “one of the most important and influential photographers of the last 40 years.”
“During that time, he has worked almost exclusively in the American West, and, as photography has altered and fragmented, he has refined and reaffirmed its inherent language, adapting the legacies of 19th-century and modernist photography to his own very singular purpose,” the foundation said.
You can read the "chat" with Adams at the ceremony here.
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