哈蘇基金會攝影國際獎(Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography)今天宣布美國攝影師羅伯特·亞當斯(Robert Adams Born Orange, New Jersey, 1937)獲得2009年度第29屆哈蘇基金會攝影國際獎。美國攝影師羅伯特·亞當斯以一係列記錄美國西部的黑白作品贏得評委的認可,及60000美元獎金。從上個世紀七十年代開始,羅伯特·亞當斯便持續記錄著美國西部的變遷,試圖用影像來探尋人類與環境之間的複雜關係,他的鏡頭下記錄著兩種風景,一種被人類所破壞,另一種已超越人之所能及,映照出人類的渺小。“人們遷移到西部,原以為能夠享受自然,卻發現自己其實依然生活在鋼筋混凝土的城鎮中,隻有在周末在能夠外出接近自然。”“羅伯特·亞當斯是過去40年裏最重要、最具影響力的攝影師之一,”哈蘇基金會發言人表示,“他的作品不僅見證了美國西部的曆史,同時也在時代發展的過程中重新定義和延續了攝影語言的表達方式,將經典與現代理念同時融入他自身的拍攝風格中。”
American photographer Robert Adams from Astoria, Oregon, has been selected as the 29th winner of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. The award was presented to Robert Adams at a press conference at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco on April 14, 2009. He received the prize from the Honorable Barbro Osher, Consul General, Consulate General of Sweden, San Francisco. The award sum was SEK 500,000. An exhibition of the award winner’s work, Robert Adams – 2009 Hasselblad Award Winner, will open at the Hasselblad Center, Göteborg Art Museum on November 6, 2009.
The Foundation’s citation:
Robert Adams is one of the most important and influential photographers of the last forty years. During that time he has worked almost exclusively in the American West, and, as photography has altered and fragmented, he has refined and reaffirmed its inherent language, adapting the legacies of nineteenth century and modernist photography to his own very singular purpose. Precise and undramatic, Adams’ accumulative vision of the West now stands as a formidable document, reflecting broader, global concerns about the environment, while consistently recognizing signs of human aspiration and elements of hope across a particular changing landscape.
North of Purcell on the Pawnee Grasslands, Colorado, 1981
Untitled, Denver 1970-1974
Colorado Springs, Colorado" 1968
"Burning Oil Sludge North of Denver, Colorado," 1973
Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon, 1999–2003
Untitled, Denver 1970-1974
North Jetty, mouth of the Columbia River, River on left, ocean on right 1990
羅伯特·亞當斯Art:21視頻
Robert Adams's black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. An underlying tension in A...