Ann Christine Eek was born in 1948 in Falun. Between 1968 and 1971, she studied under Christer Strömholm at Fotoskolan in Stockholm, where she later became a teacher. Between 1975 and 2007, she made long trips to the former Yugoslavia and Albania, where she accompanied the Norwegian anthropologist Berit Backer to document the then isolated life in the villages and rural areas, an existence that changed radically after the war. More recently, she has photographed the Scandinavian countryside. Eek has worked as a freelance photographer and photo journalist since 1972, but has also been employed as a photographer at Norsk Folkemuseum in Oslo.
Curator: Anna Tellgren
The exhibition Reality Revisited includes more than 300 photographs from the 1970s, all in the Moderna Museet Collection of photography. It gives us a look into several realities, the lives of famous photographers and their views on life and art. The featured photographers represent classic black-and-white photography. They have used the medium in various ways to develop their own expressive style through the photographic image. Postwar street photography and subjective photography were seminal to the photographers whose careers began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1970s before the breakthrough of postmodern photo-based art in the early 1980s. The title, Reality Revisited, refers to the way these photographers frequently used, or returned to, their own reality as a starting point. Many of them s...