 The Hasselblad Foundation is delighted to announce that Ingrid Pollard is the 2024 Hasselblad Award laureate and receives a gold medal and the sum of SEK 2,000,000. The award also includes a Hasselblad camera by the Gothenburg-based company Hasselblad. The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden on 11th of October 2024. That same day, an exhibition of Ingrid Pollard’s work will open at the Hasselblad Center, and a new publication about the artist will be released. In conjunction w… more This exhibition celebrates Carrie Mae Weems, the 2023 Hasselblad Award winner. It includes seven prominent bodies of work which reflect Weems’s commitment to social justice. Photography is one of the tools she uses in confronting the painful past that shapes our present and in scrutinizing power – whether in personal relationships or political structures.
A central body of work in the exhibition is the landmark Kitchen Table Series from 1990. The twenty staged tableaux are set in the artist… morePortraits from the Hasselblad Foundation CollectionThe Gothenburg photography scene 1985–95 Hasselblad Award Winner 2020The Hasselblad Award honours major achievements in photography within various genres and expressions, offering a nuanced view of the field of photography. Rather than being a photographer in a conventional sense, the fortieth Hasselblad Award winner, Alfredo Jaar, is an architect and artist who explores, and re-stages existing photographs in groundbreaking ways. His research into what he calls “the politics of images” are firmly rooted in photography, problematizing ideas of objective realit… moreThe Interwar Era through the LensDocumentary Strategies in Contemporary PhotographyDocumentary Strategies in Contemporary PhotographyThe Story of Food in PhotographyHasselblad Award Winner 2019 Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz is the recipient of the 2018 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for the sum of SEK 1,000,000 (approx. USD 125,000). The award ceremony takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden on October 8, 2018. A symposium will be held on October 9 in honour of Oscar Muñoz, followed by the opening of an exhibition of his work at the Hasselblad Center, and the release of a new book about the artist, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König… moreSurveillance, Warfare, Protest The Hasselblad Foundation is pleased to announce that Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra is the recipient of the 2017 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography to the sum of SEK1,000,000 (approx. EUR100,000).
The award ceremony will take place in Gothenburg, Sweden, on October 9, 2017. A symposium will be held on October 10 in honor of Rineke Dijkstra, followed by the opening of an exhibition of her work at the Hasselblad Center, as well as the launch of the book Rineke Dijkstra &ndash… moreSurveillance, Art and PhotographyA story within a story...The Photography of Nature / The Nature of PhotographyFrom the Hasselblad Foundation collectionWorks from the Hasselblad Foundation collectionSelections from the Collection of Christopher G. Cardozo PhotographsThe most important photobooks from 1870s to presentThe Story of Tracey Moffatt's 'Adventure Series' Photo Shoot in Brisbane, Australia.
In July and August of 2003 I returned from New York to my hometown of Brisbane in Australia's subtropical north to be artist-in-residence at the Institute of Modern Art. Here I was to produce a new body of work called 'Adventure Series', inspired by The Flying Doctor series, an adventure comic strip I read as a kid in the Brisbane newspapers as well as the 1970s Australian television seafaring show, The Rovers… more NEW SWEDISH PHOTOGRAPHY
15 May - 6 June 2004
Participating artists:
Sara Appelgren
Albin Biblom
Kajsa Dahlberg
Beata Fransson
Susanna Hesselberg
Anders Krisár
Jenny Källman
Nygårds Karin Bengtsson
Anneè Olofsson
Lars Wallsten
Pernilla Zetterman moreThe American publishing house Condé Nast – whose magazines include Vogue, Vanity Fair and Condé Nast Traveler – is the world leader in its field. The select ranks of star photographers who have had contracts specifically with Condé Nast Traveler in the last decade include Annie Leibovitz, Brigitte Lacombe, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, the recently deceased Helmut Newton – and Håkan Ludwigson (b. 1948, lives in Gothenburg, Sweden).
His name is invoked with particular respect on New York’s… moreIn collaboration with the Göteborg Museum of Art and the Kunsthalle
Curator: Carl-Michael von Hausswolff moreKvinnliga fotografer har under 1990-talet fått stor uppmärksamhet inom samtidskonsten. Så har emellertid inte alltid varit fallet. De har ofta levt i skuggan av sina manliga kollegor, varit anonyma i sin samtid och osynliga i den skrivna fotohistorien. På senare år har dock ett antal utställningar omfattande enbart kvinnliga fotografer visats runt om i världen. Monografier och lokala samlingsverk har publicerats men endast ett större verk, Naomi Rosenblums A History of Women Photographer… more |
