Prix Nadar
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, Felix Nadar, was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, a French photographer who lived from 1820 to 1910.
Some Prix Nadar Winners
- Werner Bischof, 1955, Japan
- Fulvio Roiter, 1956, Umbria
- William Klein, 1957
- Michel Cot, 1958
- Jean Dieuzaide, 1961
- Alexander Liberman, 1962, Masters of Contemporary Art
- Sam Haskins, 1964 (Cowboy Kate and other stories)
- Erich Lessing, 1966 (Odyssee)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1971, Vive la France
- André Kertész, 1973, Sixty years of photography
- Gina Lollobrigida, 1974, Italia mia
- Georg Gerster, 1976, Earth Rights
- Josef Koudelka, 1978
- Willy Ronis, 1981 (Le fil du hasard)
- August Sander, 1982, Men of the twentieth century
- Jean-Claude Lemagny, 1985
- André Kertész, 1988 (Hologramme)
- Elisabeth Foch, 1990 (Montagne des photographes)
- Irving Penn, 1991, by the way
- Richard Avedon, 1994 (Evidence 1944-1994)
- Michael Ackerman, 1999 (End Time City)
- Raymond Depardon, 2000 (Detours)
- Olivier Beer, 2001 (Urban Resources)
- Jean Gaumy, 2001
- 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)
- Gilles Mora, 2007, (La Photographie Americaine)
- Sarah Moon, 2008, (1 2 3 4 5, éditions Delpire)