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The recipient of the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 1998 has been announced as William Eggleston. Past recipients have included (chronologically) Ansel Adams, Henri CartierBresson, Irving Penn, Sebastiao Salgado, William Klein, Richard Avedon, Josef Koudelka, Susan Meiselas and Robert Frank.
Each year since 1980, a five-member international committee has been appointed by the Board of the Hasselblad Foundation to nominate three candidates. According to the Foundation, criteria considered in selecting award winners are major achievements in the field of photography, impact on future generations of photographers and the requirement that the photographer be a...