Prix Nadar

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The Prix Nadar is an annual prize awarded for a photography book edited in France. The prize was created in 1955 and is awarded by a jury of photojournalists and publishing experts.

The prize's namesake, Nadar, was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, a French photographer who lived from 1820 to 1910.

[edit] Some Prix Nadar Winners

  • William Klein, 1956
  • Jean Dieuzaide, 1961
  • Sam Haskins, 1964 (Cowboy Kate and other stories)
  • Erich Lessing, 1966 (Odyssee)
  • Georg Gerster, 1976
  • Josef Koudelka, 1978
  • Willy Ronis, 1981 (Le fil du hasard)
  • Jean-Claude Lemagny, 1985
  • André Kertész, 1988 (Hologramme)
  • Xavier Zimbardo, 1989
  • Elisabeth Foch, 1990 (Montagne des photographes)
  • Richard Avedon, 1994 (Evidence 1944-1994)
  • Carla Williams, 1998
  • Michael Ackerman, 1999 (End Time City)
  • Raymond Depardon, 2000 (Detours)
  • Olivier Beer, 2001 (Urban Resources)
  • Larry Burrows, 2002 (Vietnam)
  • Bernard Guillot, 2003 (The white House)
  • Philippe Bordered, 2004 (Africa With Naked Fists)
  • Larry Towell, 2005 (No Man's Land)
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2006 (Scrapbook)

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