The Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh)
The Cultural Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) was founded on 2. October 1958. In the foundation charter signed by the DGPh president at that time, Dr. Gerhard Schröder, it reads: "The Cultural Award... distinguishes outstanding services achieved using photography, especially in the arts, humanitarian, caritative, social, technical, educational or scientific field". The award comprises a certificate as well as a gold-mounted lens and is presented every year, alongside the Dr.-Erich-Salomon Award for outstanding photography in journalism, as the highest distinction of the DGPh.
The award winners include internationally renowned scientists, inventors, writers, publishers, editors, lecturers, art directors and, in particular, top photographers from Germany and abroad.
The previous recipients:
1959 | Prof. Helmut Gernsheim, London (Great Britain) |
| Prof. Dr. med. Robert Janker, Bonn (Germany) |
1960 | Fritz Brill, Hofgeismar (Germany) |
| Albert Renger-Patzsch, Wamel (Germany) |
1961 | Prof. Dr. Dr. John Eggert, Zollikon (Switzerland) |
| Hilmar Pabel, Berg (Germany) |
| August Sander, Kuchhausen (Germany) |
| Dr. Gustav Wilmanns, Schönberg (Germany) |
1962 | Alfred Eisenstaedt, New York (USA) |
| Prof. Dr. Otto Steinert, Essen (Germany) |
1963 | Dr. Ing. Edith Weyde, Leverkusen (Germany) |
1964 | Fritz Kempe, Hamburg (Germany) |
| Emil Schulthess, Forch (Switzerland) |
1965 | Heinz Hajek-Halke, Berlin (Germany) |
| Felix H. Man, Rom (Italy) |
1966 | Man Ray, Paris (Frankreich) |
| Prof. Dr. A. Smakula, Auburndale (USA) |
1967 | Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris (France) |
| Dr. Edwin H. Land, Cambridge (USA) |
| 1968 Dr. h.c. Bruno Uhl, Bad Kissingen (Germany) |
| Chargesheimer, Köln (Germany) |
| Charlotte March, Hamburg (Germany) |
| Thomas Höpker, Hamburg (Germany) |
1969 | Herbert Bayer, Aspen (USA) |
| Prof. Dr. Ing. Hellmut Frieser, München (Germany) |
1970 | Beaumont Newhall, Rochester (USA) |
| Prof. L. Fritz Gruber, Köln (Germany) |
1971 | Prof. Dr. Dennis Gabor, London (Great Britain) |
| Prof. Dr. h.c. Josef Svoboda, Prag (Czechoslowakia) |
1972 | Ernst Haas, New York (USA) |
1973 | Prof. Dr. Walter Bruch, Hannover (Germany) |
| Leopold Godowsky, New York (USA) |
| Prof. Dr. Gotthard Wolf, Göttingen (Germany) |
1974 | Erwin Fieger, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| Willy Fleckhaus, Blecher (Germany) |
1975 | German Red Cross, Bonn (Germany) |
| 'The Unknown Photographer' |
1976 | Rosemarie Clausen, Hamburg (Germany) |
| Regina Relang, München (Germany) |
| Lieselotte Strelow, Hamburg (Germany) |
1977 | Dr. Wesley T. Hanson, Rochester (USA) |
| Prof. Dr. Eberhard Klein, Leverkusen (Germany) |
1978 | Dr. Gisèle Freund, Paris (France) |
1979 | Andor Kraszna-Krausz, London (Great Britain) |
| Allan Porter, Luzern (Switzerland) |
| Dr. Wolf Strache, Stuttgart (Germany) |
1980 | Dr. h.c. Ludwig Bertele, Wildhaus (Switzerland) |
| Prof. Dr. J.A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, München (Germany) |
1981 | Prof. Dr. Harold Edgerton, Cambridge (USA) |
| Prof. Dr. J. Mitchell, Charlottesville, Virginia (USA) |
1982 | Dr. Eliot Porter, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA) |
| Reinhart Wolf, Hamburg (Germany) |
1983 | Dr. Karl Pawek, St. Peter (Germany) |
1984 | Jacques Henri Lartigue, Courbevoie (France) |
1985 | Bernd und Hilla Becher, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
1986 | Dr. Paul K. Weimer, Princeton, New Jersey (USA) |
1987 | Irving Penn, Huntington, New York (USA) |
1988 | William Klein, Paris (France) |
1989 | Dr. Paul B. Gilman, Rochester (USA) |
| Prof. Dr. Erik Moisar, Köln (Germany) |
| Dr. Tadaaki Tani, Ashigara (Japan) |
1990 | Cornell Capa, New York (USA) |
| Sue Davies, London (Great Britain) |
| Anna Farova, Prag (Czechoslowakia) |
1991 | Peter Keetman, Breitbrunn (Germany) |
1992 | Evelyn Richter, Leipzig (Germany) |
1993 | Dr. Lennart Nilsson, Göteborg (Sweden) |
1994 | Christine Frisinghelli, Graz (Austria) |
| Manfred Willmann, Graz (Austria) |
1995 | Mario Giacomelli, Senegallia (Italy) |
1996 | Karl Lagerfeld, Paris (France) |
1997 | David Hockney, Los Angeles (USA) |
1998 | Andreas Feininger, New York (USA) |
1999 | Group fotoform: (Germany) |
| Siegfried Lauterwasser, Überlingen |
| Wolfgang Reisewitz, Mainz |
| Toni Schneiders, Lindau |
2000 | Prof. Robert Häusser, Mannheim (Germany) |
2001 | Prof. F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg (Germany) |
2002 | A.D. Coleman, New York (USA) |
| Richard Misrach, Berkeley (USA) |
2003 | Wim Wenders, Los Angeles (USA) |
| Mogens S. Koch, Kopenhagen (Denmark) |
2004 | Daido Moriyama, Tokyo (Japan) |
2005 | Dr. Wilfried Wiegand, Berlin (Germany) |
2006 | Ed Ruscha (USA) |
