Eva Klasson, born in 1947 in Borås, was an early student of Christer Strömholm and moved to Paris on his advice, to work as a freelance photographer. Klasson had her first exhibition in 1969, showing Le troisiéme angle (The Third Angle), a series of remarkable self-portraits, at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Simultaneously intimate and repulsive, the near-abstract close-ups transform the body into a billowing landscape. This was followed by exhibitions in New York and Rome, but she gave up photography shortly after.
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...