Hasselblad Foundation
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The Hasselblad Foundation was established in 1979 at the will of Victor Hasselblad, as a fully independent, not-for-profit foundation based at Götaplatsen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The main aim of the foundation is to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography.
History
After the death of Victor Hasselblad in August 1978 it was announced by the Swedish government that he had bequeathed part of his fortune "to establish awards similar to Nobel Prizes," with the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation "awarding prizes of around three million Swedish crowns ($700,000) once a year, or twice this sum every two years, to scientists in the natural sciences." At the time the sum corresponded to the annual Nobel prize awards for science and literature.{{Cite news |date=18 November 1978 |title=Erna and Victor Hasselblad Nobels |pages=3 |work=The Japan Times 1978-11-18}} The first grant, 500,000 Swedish Kronor in that instance, went to Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology's Department of Photography, then the country's only scientific research and teaching institution in the field of photography.{{Cite journal |date=March 1981 |title=Very first Prize |journal=Popular Photography |volume=88 |issue=3 |pages=58}}
= Erna and Victor Hasselblad Photography Center =
In accord with its origin in the manufacture of innovative cameras, the Foundation also conducts its own research into photography at its Hasselblad Center, which opened in 1989, with Rune Hassner as the organisation's first head 1988–94,{{Cite book |last=Hasselblad Center |title=Rolf Winquist : Porträttör : En Återblick På En Ledande Svensk Ateljéfotografs Arbeten 1940–1968 |last2=Hassner |first2=Rune |publisher=Hasselblad Centre |year=1989 |location=Göteborg |language=sv |oclc=81747003}} and it continues to exhibit Swedish and International photography. On Hassner's initiative the Center commenced a collection with a concentration on the work of Nordic photographers, among them Sune Jonsson, Christer Strömholm, Adriana Lestido, Pål-Nils Nilsson.
The Center's purpose is to promote education in photography through research projects, seminars and lectures, and its library and archives for students and researchers. The Hasselblad Foundation's research library opened in 1999, initiated with Hassner's own extensive library which he donated in 1998.{{Cite book |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/60402034 |title=Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography |publisher=Routledge |year=2006 |isbn=1-57958-393-8 |editor-last=Warren |editor-first=Lynne |edition=Two-volume |location=New York |pages=667, 1129 |language=en |oclc=60402034}}
Among these actives American ornithologist-photographer Don Walte in 1988 was granted $21.000 Foundation to photograph birds with a video camera sharing a viewfinder with the Hasselblad camera, opening a new career as a film maker.{{Cite news |last=Poole |first=Kate |date=6 July 1988 |title=Photographer details history of community with his books |pages=14 |work=The Maple Ridge News}}
= Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography =
The Foundation also presents an annual international award in photography{{Cite journal |date=October 1979 |title=The Hasselblad Awards |journal=Popular Photography |volume=85 |issue=4 |pages=73, 234}} to "a photographer recognised for major achievements",{{cite web |title=Hasselblad Foundation |url=http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org}} exhibiting their work at the Center and publishing monographs on each.
The first prize, 100,000 Swedish kronor and a gold medal, was awarded in November 1980 to Lennart Nilsson for his imagery of medicine and nature.{{Cite news |date=10 March 1981 |title=Close Encounter of the Mosquito Kind |pages=22 |work=Philadelphia Daily News}} Other winners included Ernst Haas, Édouard Boubat, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Robert Häusser, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hiroshi Hamaya, William Klein, Sebastião Salgado, Susan Meiselas, and Boris Mikhailov.
Photography stipends
=The Victor Fellowships=
Awards continuous professional and artistic development outside the Nordic region since 2004. Two stipend winners are announced annually, one from United Kingdom and another one from New York.{{cite web |url=http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/the-victor-fellowships |title=The Victor Fellowships |publisher=Hasselblad Foundation |access-date=12 September 2011 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110823092705/http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/the-victor-fellowships |archive-date=23 August 2011 |df= }}
=The Grez-sur-Loing stipend=
Awards Scandinavian photographers, or Scandinavians working abroad, with a residency located in Grez-sur-Loing near Fontainebleau, France. The awarded photographer is accommodated at the Hôtel Chevillon, restored by the Grez-sur-Loing Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://www.grez-stiftelsen.se/index_en.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402104756/http://www.grez-stiftelsen.se/index_en.html|archive-date=2 April 2012|title=Foundation Grez-sur-Loing}} The Grez-sur-Loing stipends{{cite web |url=http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/the-grez-sur-loing-stipend |title=The Grez-sur-Loing stipend |publisher=Hasselblad Foundation |access-date=12 September 2011 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122213734/http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/the-grez-sur-loing-stipend/ |archive-date=22 November 2011 |df= }} have been awarded since 1994.
=The San Michele stipend=
Targeting Swedish photographers, the winner of this stipend{{cite web |url=http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/the-san-michele-stipend |title=The San Michele stipend |publisher=Hasselblad Foundation |access-date=12 September 2011 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122213810/http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/the-san-michele-stipend/ |archive-date=22 November 2011 |df= }} will follow in the footsteps of Swedish physician Axel Munthe, awarded with an international stay at Axel Munthe's Villa San Michele{{cite web|url=http://www.villasanmichele.eu/en|title=Villa San Michele, Italy}} located on Capri, an island in the southern part of Italy.
=Stipend in Nature Photography=
A stipend established to encourage Nordic nature photography, based on Victor Hasselblad's own interest in nature.{{cite web |url=http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/stipend-in-nature-photography |title=Stipend in Nature Photography |publisher=Hasselblad Foundation |access-date=12 September 2011 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122213659/http://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/stipend-in-nature-photography/ |archive-date=22 November 2011 |df= }} In collaboration with Vårgårda Photo Club. First to be awarded was Swedish photographer Marcus Elmerstad.{{cite web|url=http://www.kamerabild.se/nyheter/han-fick-hasselblads-naturpris-pa-100-000-kronor-1.40485.html|title=Kamera & Bild|year=2008}}
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Stipend ! Project ! Stipend sum |
| rowspan="2"| 2008
| Marcus Elmerstad | "The Pilgrim Road to Nidaros"{{cite web|url=http://www.marcuse.se/pilgrim01.html|publisher=Marcus Elmerstad|type=Official website|title=The Pilgrim Road to Nidaros|date=2007–2010}} | SEK 100,000 |
| Karolina Tillman{{cite web|url=http://www.nordicphotogroup.com/exposed_content.asp|publisher=Nordic Photo Group|title=Karolina Tillman was awarded the Hasselblad Foundation's Honourable Mention|year=2008}}
| "Fairyland – Nordic Legends" | SEK 10,000 |
| 2010
| Daniel Månsson{{cite web|url=http://www.danielmansson.com/about|title=About – Photography|publisher=Daniel Månsson|type=Official website}} | "Waves" | SEK 100,000 |
=Postdoctor in photography=
Science
=Science grants=
=Visiting professorship=
=Science stipends=
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.hasselbladfoundation.org}}
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