The David Octavius Hill Medal is a prize in photography established in 1955, by the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. It is named in honor of the Scottish artist David Octavius Hill, famous for his Hill & Adamson calotypes, most of which were developed at Adamson's studio, the "Rock House", on Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
Recipients
1955: Walter Hege, Carl Adolf Schleussner, Erich Stenger, Bruno Uhl 1957: Albert Renger-Patzsch 1958: Erna Lendvai-Dircksen 1964: Herbert List 1965: Otto Steinert 1966: Martin Hürlimann 1967: Paul Strand 1968: Fritz Gruber 1969: Liselotte Strelow 1970: Allan Porter 1971: Edouard Boubat 1972: Regina Relang 1973: J.A. Schmoll, gen. Eisenwerth 1974: Fritz Kempe 1978: Heinz Hajek-Halke, Willi Moegle 1979: Fritz Brill, Kurt Julius 1981: Peter Keetman 1983: Helmut Gernsheim 1984: Robert Häusser 1986: John Hilliard 1988: Joan Fontcuberta 1990: Stefan Moses 1994: Jürgen Heinemann, Klaus Kammerichs 1996: Gottfried Jäger 1999: Dieter Appelt 2002: Alex Webb 2005: Bernhard Prinz 2009: Joakim Eskildsen, Cia Rinne 2015: Viviane Sassen 2019: Ute & Werner Mahler
References
Träger der David-Octavius-Hill-Medaille (German). Accessed 24 January 2010.