Hasselblad-prisen 2005

Den amerikanske fotografen Lee Friedlander er tildelt Hasselblad-prisen for 2005. Friedlander er blant annet kjent for sine høyst subjektive reportasjebilder.

Juryens formann har vært Øivind Storm Bjerke, professor ved kunsthistorisk institutt ved Universitetet i Oslo. Juryens begrunnelse er følgende:

Lee Friedlander is among the most significant, inventive and influential contemporary photographers, with a lifetime achievement spanning the last fifty years. What distinguishes Friedlander?s work is not primarily his technique, but the visual and aesthetic concepts he applies. By recording phenomena of everyday life and by critical observation of the world around him Friedlander has been central in defining a whole genre based on the concept of the ?social landscape.? His work embodies a ?new documentary paradigm?, in which stylistic innovations and freedom from established formal practices has influenced the work of subsequent generations of photographers.

Les hele pressemeldingen.