Photographer Robert Adams Wins Hasselblad Award

Robert Adams is the winner of the 29th Hasselblad Foundation Award in Photography, an international prize that recognizes major achievements in photography. Adams was presented with a gold medal and a check for 500,000 Swedish kroner (approximately $60,000) at a ceremony at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco on Tuesday. Past winners of the Hasselblad photography award include Nan Goldin, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Malick Sidibé, Irving Penn, and Ansel Adams.

Known for his black-and-white images that capture the evolving American West, Oregon-based Adams, 72, has an extraordinary range: think Timothy

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