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)