1999 - Richard Misrach, "Mono Lake #2, California", from ‘Desert Cantos’

1998 - Shadi Ghadirian, from the series "Qajar"

1997 - Hélène Binet, "Jewish Museum, Berlin" (arch. Daniel Liebskind)

1996 - Edward Burtynsky, "Nickel Tailings, No.36, Sudbury, Ontario"

1995 - Rut Blees Luxemburg, "Towering Inferno"

1994 - James Nachtwey, "Rwanda - Survivor of Hutu death camp"

1993 - Andreas Gursky, "Montparnasse, Paris"

1992 - Sophie Ristelhueber, "Fait"

1991 - Hiroshi Sugimoto, "South Pacific Ocean - Tearai"

1990 - Matt Collishaw, "Narcissus"

1989 - Ulrich Wüst, "Kühlungsborn", from "Spätsommer" (Late Summer)

1988 - Thomas Ruff, "Porträt (P Stadtbäumer)"

1987 - Andreas Serrano, "Piss Christ"

1986 - Sebastião Salgado, "Serra Pelada gold mine, Brazil"

1985 - Luigi Ghirri, "Cemetery of San Cataldo, Modena; the Ossuary in Winter"

1984 - Martin Parr, from "The Last Resort" (1983-6)

1983 - Robert Mapplethorpe, "Ken Moody"

1982 - Paul Graham, "Little Chef in Rain, St Neots, Cambridgeshire, May 1982", from the series "A1 - The Great North Road"

1981 - Susan Meiselas, "Cuesta del Plomo, a well-known site of many assassinations carried out by the National Guard, where people searched daily for missing persons, Managua, Nicaragua"

1980 - Helen Levitt, "New York"

1979 - Peter Fischli and David Weiss, "At the Carpet Shop" (from 'The Sausage Photographs')

1978 - Thomas Struth, "Crosby Street, New York"

1977 - Dieter Appelt, "The Mark on the Mirror that Breathing Makes"

1976 - Chris Killip, "Youth on Wall, Jarrow, Tyneside"

1975 - Robert Mapplethorpe, "Patti Smith"

1974 - Lewis Baltz, "South Wall, Resources Recovery Systems, 1882 McGaw, Irvine"

1973 - William Eggleston, "Greenwood, Mississippi"

1972 - Bill Owens, from "Suburbia"

"We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food, and we have a really nice home."

1971 - David Noble (for John Hinde postcards), "Night Scene - Butlin's Skegness" (Late 60s/early 70s?)

1970 - Lee Friedlander, "Hillcrest, New York"

1969 - Malick Sidibé, Studio Portrait