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Anna Clarén
Anna Clarén (born 1972) is a Swedish photographer and educator. ''Holding'' (2006) won Best Photobook in the Swedish Photo Book Prize. She has had solo exhibitions at The House of Culture (Stockholm), The House of Culture and Fotografiska in Stockholm, and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen in France. Clarén's work is held in the collection of Moderna Museet in Stockholm. She leads the (Nordic Photography School). Early life and education Clarén was born in 1972 in Valje, Sweden and grew up in Lund, Scania. She studied photojournalism from 1994 to 1996 at , Sweden. Life and work Clarén worked as a photographer from 1997, including as a press photographer for ''Aftonbladet'' and ''Icakuriren'', and making work for magazines and books. She now leads the Nordens Folkhögskola Biskops-Arnö, where she has been a head teacher since 2006. ''Holding'' (2006) is a visual diary created over four months that "portrays the people and places in Clarén's immediate surroundings". It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Göteborgs-Posten
''Göteborgs-Posten'' (lit. "The Gothenburg Post"), abbreviated GP, is a major Swedish language daily newspaper published in Gothenburg, Sweden. History and profile ''Göteborgs-Posten'' was first published in 1813, but ceased publication in 1822. It re-appeared in 1850. Publication seven days a week began in 1939. The paper is owned and published by a family company, Stampen, a subsidiary of Hjörne group. It changed its format from the classic broadsheet to compact (newspaper), compact on 5 October 2004. ''Göteborgs-Posten'' is published in Gothenburg, with containing coverage of local, regional, national and international issues. It is chiefly distributed in western Götaland. The stated position of the editorial page is Liberalism and centrism in Sweden, liberal (which Liberalism and centrism in Sweden, in Sweden means center-right). Circulation According to its publisher, seven out of ten Gothenburgers read ''Göteborgs-Posten'' every day. In 1998 the circulation of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collection (museum)
A museum is distinguished by a collection of often unique objects that forms the core of its activities for exhibitions, education, research, etc. This differentiates it from an archive or library, where the contents may be more paper-based, replaceable and less exhibition oriented, or a private collection of art formed by an individual, family or institution that may grant no public access. A museum normally has a collecting policy for new acquisitions, so only objects in certain categories and of a certain quality are accepted into the collection. The process by which an object is formally included in the collection is called ''accessioning'' and each object is given a unique accession number. Museum collections, and archives in general, are normally catalogued in a collection catalogue, traditionally in a card index, but nowadays in a computerized database. Transferring collection catalogues onto computer-based media is a major undertaking for most museums. All new acquisiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Tunbjörk
Lars Tunbjörk (15 February 1956 – 8 April 2015) was a Swedish photographer known for his "deadpan portraits of office spaces and suburban lifestyles". Background Tunbjörk was born in the Swedish town of Borås, a place which was a big influence for his work throughout his career. He was also influenced early on by Swedish photographer Christer Stromholm and American photographer William Eggleston. His photographs can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Tunbjörk was a member of Agence Vu and worked for ''The New York Times Magazine'', ''Time'', ''GEO'', and others. Exhibitions *1993: Hasselblad center, Gothenburg *1994: Nordiska museet, Stockholm *1995: International Center of Photography, New York City *1998: Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark *1999: Galerie Vu, Paris, France *2002: Arbetets museum, Norrköping *2002: Kulturhuset, Stockholm *2002: ''Home,'' Hasselblad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Smoliansky
Gunnar Smoliansky (11 July 1933 – 12 December 2019) was a Swedish photographer. Biography In 1975, Smoliansky and others founded the Bildhuset Agency. In 1980, he won the ''Stora Fotographpriset'' from ''Photo A photograph (also known as a photo, image, or picture) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are now created ...'' magazine. In 2005, Smoliansky won the Prix Lennart af Petersens. References External links Gunnar Smolianskyat the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation 1933 births 2019 deaths Swedish photographers {{Sweden-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inta Ruka
Inta Ruka (born 1958) is a Latvian photographer. Life and work Ruka was born in Riga. She married Egons Spuris, a Latvian photographer. Towards the end of the 1970s, she started her career in photography. In 2006, she worked on another photographic series, ''Neighbours''. Additionally, she received a scholarship of the IASPIS for "two-month artist-in-residence" in Stockholm in 2007, and was given "the highest award of the 'Order of the Three Stars' of the State of Latvia", "Chevalier" ("Knight"), in 2009. Since the end of the 1980s, Ruka has had about twenty exhibitions alone both abroad and in Latvia. She has also taken part in an abundance of group exhibitions worldwide. Ruka worked with Rolleiflex cameras up until 2004. She would put the Rolleiflex camera on a tripod, and photograph using natural light, waiting until the right light came. Anna Tellgren states that Ruka works with gelatin silver printing paper. This shows her connection to an older generation. Ruka had follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anders Petersen (photographer)
Anders Petersen (born 1944) is a Swedish photographer, based in Stockholm. He makes intimate and personal documentary-style black and white photographs. Petersen has published more than 20 books. Biography Petersen studied photography under Christer Strömholm in Sweden from 1966 to 1967. He is noted for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photographs. For three years beginning in 1967 he photographed the late-night regulars (prostitutes, transvestites, drunks, lovers and drug addicts) in Café Lehmitz, a bar in Hamburg, Germany. The resulting photobook was first published in 1978 by Schirmer/Mosel in Germany. ''Café Lehmitz'' has since become regarded as a seminal book in the history of European photography. One of the photographs from this series was used as the cover art for Tom Waits' album '' Rain Dogs''. Petersen's first book ''Gröna Lund'' (Green Grove), which was published in 1973, is set in the amusement park of Gröna Lund situated on an i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuija Lindström
Tuija Lydia Elisabeth Lindström (5 May 1950 – 26 December 2017) was a Finnish- Swedish photographer, artist and professor of photography at School of Photography and Film, University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden, 1992–2001. She lived and worked in Stockholm, Sweden. In the early 1990s, she became very noted for her black and white pictures of women floating in a black lake, known as ''Girls at Bull's Pond''. Her pictures at this time addressed feminist issues but from a different perspective than has previously been customary in Sweden. She has held several international exhibitions and is represented in particular at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the Houston Art Museum in the U.S., and Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Johansson
Gerry Johansson (born 1945) is a Swedish photographer who lives in Höganäs in southern Sweden. He makes "straight and pragmatic" photographs with "an objective view of a geographic location." His books include ''America,'' ''Sweden,'' ''Germany,'' ''Antarctic,'' ''Tokyo,'' and ''American Winter.'' His work is held in the collection of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, where he has had solo exhibitions. He has been awarded the and the Lars Tunbjörk Prize. Life and work Johansson was born in Örebro, Örebro County, Sweden and grew up in Varberg, Halland County, Sweden. He started photographing at age 11 and began printing his own pictures at age 15. After high school he lived with relatives in New Jersey, USA for a year. He studied for a degree in graphic design at Konstindustriskolan in Gothenburg (now the School of Design and Crafts at the University of Gothenburg), between 1965 and 1969, then worked for a photography magazine. He worked for fifteen years as a graphic desig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Gustavsson (photographer)
Kenneth Gustavsson (7 April 1946 – 21 December 2009) was a Swedish photographer. Career and work Gustavsson grew up in a suburb north west of Stockholm. Between 1964 and 1967 he studied photography at the Fotoskolan in Stockholm, where the photographer Christer Strömholm was head, at the same time as Anders Petersen. After graduation in 1967, he and Petersen co-founded the Saftra photo agency (Saftra Reportage Fotografi). The Swedish photo magazine Foto published Gustavsson's work in the 1960s. Together with Anders Petersen, Gustavsson portrayed the Stockholm slums in an exhibition at the Stockholm City Museum in 1969. After not working in photography for most of the 1970s, a feature in ETC magazine in 1983 revived Gustavsson's career and he went on to complete assignments in Belfast, Chicago, Reykjavik and New York for ETC. In 1984 he was awarded FOTO magazine's Photographer's Price. The critic Gerry Badger has said of Gustavsson's work that "it certainly is very post-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JH Engström
JH Engström (born 1969) is a Swedish photographer and artist based in Stockholm. He was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize in 2005. Biography Engström was born 1969 in Karlstad, Sweden. He graduated in 1997 from the Photography and Film department at the University of Gothenburg. Publications Publications by Engström *''Trying to Dance.'' Stockholm: Journal, 2003. . *''Haunts.'' Göttingen: Steidl, 2006. . *''CDG / JHE.'' Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. . *''October 2016: Fear of Leaving.'' London: Morel, 2016. *''Revoir.'' Stockholm: Journal; Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa, 2016. . With a text by :fr:Christian Caujolle. Edition of 600 copies. *''Day by Day.'' Paris: Bessard 2020. Edition of 600 copies. Publications paired with others *''From Back Home''. Stockholm: Bokförlaget Max Ström, 2009. With Anders Petersen. . *''Karaoke Sunne.'' With Margot Wallard. Tokyo: Super Labo, 2014. Edition of 1000 copies. Awards *Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Bogren
Martin Bogren (born 1967) is a Swedish documentary photographer, living in Malmö. He has made "understated books full of quietly observed moments shot in grainy black and white." Bogren has had solo exhibitions of ''Lowlands'' and ''Italia'' at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden, and of ''Ocean'' at Blue Sky Gallery in Portland, Oregon. ''Lowlands'' has also been shown in group exhibitions at Moderna Museet Malmö and Moderna Museet, Stockholm. His work is held in the collections of Fotografiska and of Portland Art Museum. Life and work Bogren grew up in Skurup, Skåne County (also known as Scania County), Sweden. In the early 1990s he photographed bands and artists. He toured for several years with the Swedish pop group the Cardigans, making a "diaristic book", ''The Cardigans: Been it'' (1997). He has since established his signature style, making—in the words of Sean O'Hagan in '' The Guardian''—"understated books full of quietly observed moments shot in grainy black and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
