Hasse Persson was born in 1942 in Borås. After a few years as a photographer in the local rural press, he got a regular job at the newspaper Göteborgs-Posten and later moved on to the tabloid Expressen. In 1967, Persson moved to the USA, where he became an established press photographer. His now classic photo book Amerikabilder (Pictures of America) was published in conjunction with an exhibition at Fotografiska Museet in Moderna Museet in 1974. The book features photographs from Persson's travels and assignments and portrays many of the events and phenomena that characterised the American 1970s, including protests against the Vietnam War. As the curator at the Hasselblad Centre and Kulturhuset Stockholm, he has produced several major photo exhibitions in the 2000s, including an exhibition with the photographer Sally Mann in 2007. Persson is currently the director of Borås Konstmuseum.
It is a great pleasure and honour for us to present such a unique collection of artists that have shaped the development of photography as an art form, says Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of human resources and leader of the Statoil art programme. And he continues: This exhibition will make a difference.
The exhibition consists of approximately 180 works of photography, spanning from the 1842 to 2002. With a unique collection of original Irving Penns as a basis, the diversity of the collection is presented in a wide number of small exhibitions within the main concept, says Arnt N Fredheim, curator, the Statoil art programme. It’s like a dream has come trough, he continues, as the possibility to make an exhibition of legendary photographers like William Henry Fox Talbot, Edward Weston, Karl Blossfeldt...
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...
The USA 1966-2003 by photo journalist
Exhibition presented by Fotomuseet Sundsvall Sweden with the support of Swedish institute, Stockholm, and the Embassy of Sweden in Russian Federation...