Prix Nadar

The Prix Nadar is an annual prize awarded for a photography book edited in France. The prize was created in 1955 by Association Gens d'Images and is awarded by a jury of photojournalists and publishing experts.

The prize is named after Nadar, the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, a French photographer who lived from 1820 to 1910.

Some Prix Nadar winners
• Werner Bischof, 1955 (Japon = Japan)

• Fulvio Roiter, 1956 (Ombrie, Terre de Saint François)

• William Klein, 1957 (New York)

•, 1958 (La Glace à Deux Faces)

• 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)

•, 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, Delpire)

• Quentin Bajac and Clément Chéroux, 2009 (La Subversion des images, surréalism, photographie, film)

• 2010: Jean Gaumy, D'après nature

• 2011: Jean-Christian Bourcart, Camden

• 2012: Marc Riboud, Vers l'Orient

• 2013: Mathieu Pernot (photos) and Philippe Artières (text), L'Asile des photographies

• 2014: Laurent Millet, Les Enfantillages pittoresques

• 2015: Bruno Boudjelal, Algérie, clos comme on ferme un livre ?, Le Bec en l'air

• 2016: Patrick Zachmann, So Long, China

• 2017: Geraldo de Barros, for Sobras (Chose Commune)

• 2018: Paul Fusco, for The Train. 8 juin 1968. Le dernier voyage de Robert F. Kennedy

• 2019: Miho Kajioka, for So it goes (the(M) / Ibasho)

• 2020: Flore, for the book L'odeur de la nuit était celle du jasmin