| 1979 | Europe • UK | Peter Mitchell has the exhibition "A New Refutation of Viking 4 Space Mission" at the Impressions Gallery in York showing his color photographs of Leeds (UK). This is one of the first showings of color photography in a UK gallery. |
| 1979 | Europe • Sweden | The Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation is established to promote research and academic teaching in the natural sciences and photography. The foundation also gives an awarding each year to "photographer recognized for major achievement".
Award winners: 1980 Lennart Nilsson, 1981 Ansel Adams, 1982 Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1984 Manuel Alvarez Bravo, 1985 Irving Penn, 1986 Ernst Haas, 1987 Hiroshi Hamaya, 1988 Edouard Boubat, 1989 Sebastião Salgado, 1990 William Klein, 1991 Richard Avedon, 1992 Josef Koudelka, 1993 Sune Jonsson, 1994 Susan Meiselas, 1995 Robert Häusser, 1996 Robert Frank, 1997 Christer Strömholm, 1998 William Eggleston, 1999 Cindy Sherman, 2000 Boris Mikhailov, 2001 Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2002 Jeff Wall, 2003 Malick Sidibé, 2004 Bernd and Hilla Becher, 2005 Lee Friedlander, 2006 David Goldblatt, 2007 Nan Goldin. |
| 1979 | North America • USA
| Lisette Model publishes Lisette Model.
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| 1983 | North America • USA | Larry Clark publishes Teenage Lust. |
| 1983 | North America • USA | Gilles Peress publishes Telex Iran.
Telex: Iran: In the Name of Revolution
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| 1983 | North America • USA | The Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA) opens officially in San Diego's historic Balboa Park cultural complex with a 7,500 square-foot space (1 May 1983) |
| 1984 | North America • USA | The Getty Museum on Los Angeles opens a photographic department with Weston Naef as the first curator. By the end of 1984, through the acquisition of a number of key collections (including those of Samuel Wagstaff, Volker Kahman/Georg Heusch and Bruno Bischofberger), the collection has grown to 25,000 prints, 1,500 daguerreotypes, 475 albums containing almost 40,000 photographs and about 30,000 stereographs and cartes-de-visite. |
| 1985 | North America • USA | Jim Goldberg publishes Rich and Poor. |
| 1986 | North America • USA
| Nan Goldin publishes The Ballad of Sexual Dependency that examines her own life through personal snapshots taken between 1971 and 1985 of her sexual partners, friends and acquaintances as they progress through a personal hell of drugs and sex. The book captures the essence of self-absorption in a surrounding world that doesn't care.
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| 1986 | North America • USA | Bruce Weber publishes O Rio de Janeiro. |
| 1987 | North America • USA | Bill Burke publishes I Want To Take Picture. |
| 1987 | North America • USA
| Andy Warhol dies following a gall bladder operation. He had never fully recovered from a gunshot he received in July 1968 from Valerie Solanis of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men). He remains one of the seminal figures of Pop Art and his conversion of the banal into art continues to influence photography. (27 February 1987) |
| 1987 | North America • USA | Karl Baden commences the Every day series in which he takes a stylistically similar self-portrait each day. (23 February 1987) |
| 1988 | North America • USA
| Joel Sternfeld publishes American Prospects.
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| 1988 | North America • USA | The Piss Christ photograph of Andres Serrano encourages Senator Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina) to argue against federal funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. |
| 1988 | North America • USA | The Daguerreian Society (3043 West Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15216-2460, USA - www.daguerre.org) is founded to promote the study of all aspects of Daguerreotypes. |
| 1989 | Europe • Spain | Joan Fontcuberta and Pere Formiguera publish Fauna. |
| 1990 | North America • USA | Allen Ginsberg publishes Allen Ginsberg Photographs.
Allen Ginsberg Photographs
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| 1990 | North America • USA | An exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe at the Cincinnati Art Museum is closed down when the work is accused of being obscene. Although the Museum is cleared there is a shift towards censorship in the arts. |
| 1991 | North America • USA | Lothar Baumgarten publishes Carbon.
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