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Hasselblad cameras are still widely used by professional and serious amateur photographers. One reason is the superior image quality of 6×6cm size
film over smaller film and digital sensor formats, along with a reputation for the quality of world renown Carl Zeiss Lenses. The new Hasselblad H-System cameras produced in cooperation with Fuji are
dominating the medium format digital cameras
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The most famous use of the Hasselblad camera was during the Apollo Program missions
to the Moon. This famous photo of Buzz Aldrin in a small moon crater, taken by Neil Armstrong from his special modified from
his chest-mounted Hasselblad
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Bert Stern took his Hasselblad,
Nikon 35mm with 105mm lens and a Graflex 4x5 with Polaroid back cameras for his dream-shoot. His best known work his The Last Sitting. A collection of 2,500 photographs taken of
Marilyn Monroe
over a three day period, six weeks before her death, for Vogue. When Stern published this collection in 1992 he
admitted being enchanted by her until a near-intimate encounter during the second day of shooting when realized she was deeply troubled
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Revolving Door 1974 - Lee Friedlander
Lee Friedlander. American documentary has a earnestness born of confidence in their own view of the world. His art used detached images of urban
life, store-front reflections, structures framed by fences, and posters and signs all combining to capture the look of modern life. Over the years Friedlander
explored such subjects as cityscapes, nudes and gardens |
 Ansel Adams pursued
"straight photography," in which the clarity of the lens was emphasized, and the final print gave no appearance of being manipulated
in the camera or the darkroom. He served as principal photographic consultant to Polaroid and Hasselblad. Adams developed the famous and
highly complex "zone system" of controlling and relating exposure and development, enabling photographers to creatively
visualize an image and produce a photograph that matched and expressed that visualization. He produced ten volumes of technical manuals on
photography, which are the most influential books written on the subject
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