The American photographer Nan Goldin is the winner of the most important prize in the world of photography, the Hasselblad Award. Sponsored by the Hasselblad Foundation, established in Sweden in 1979 to support research and teaching in the fields of photography and the natural sciences, is given annually since 1980 to an internationally renowned photographer whose outstanding artistic activity had a significant impact successive.Scorrendo generations on the history of the award, which provides for the allocation of 500,000 Swedish crowns, a gold medal and a diploma, you can find the big names in photography of the last century: Henri Cartier-Bresson and Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Cindy Sherman, to Boris Mikhailov, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Malick Sidibé. Nan Goldin, says the reasons for that choice, "he documented his life and that of his friends for more than thirty years, focusing on European and American urban scene of the 70s, 80s and 90s, marked so dramatically from 'AIDS. His work, based entirely sull'istantanea, makes her life a true work of art, intimate, great formal beauty, with an intense use of color. Nan Goldin uses the photograph as memory and as protezionedall'oblio, responding the needs of our times. "On 10 November, the award was inaugurated a retrospective on the art of Nan Goldin Exhibition Center all'Hasselblad within the Göteborg Art Museum.
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