Lee Friedlander
The Hasselblad award was presented for the 25th time on Saturday 19 November 2005. The award winner, Lee Friedlander, New York City, received the award from Her Royal Highness Princess Princess Desirée, at a ceremony at the Göteborg City Theatre. The award sum was SEK 500,000. In conjunction with the ceremony an exhibit of the award winner’s work, Lee Friedlander – 2005 Hasselblad award winner, opened at the Hasselblad Center at the Göteborg Museum of Art.
The Foundation's citation:
Lee Friedlander is among the most significant, inventive and influential contemporary photographers, with a lifetime achievement spanning the last fifty years. What distinguishes Friedlander’s work is not primarily his technique, but the visual and aesthetic concepts he applies. By recording phenomena of everyday life and by critical observation of the world around him Friedlander has been central in defining a whole genre based on the concept of the “social landscape”. His work embodies a “new documentary paradigm”, in which stylistic innovations and freedom from established formal practices has influenced the work of subsequent generations of photographers.
