Prix Nadar

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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)

External links

• Nadar winners since 1955

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