Exhibition dates: February 2011 – end of 2011
A posting from an exhibition highlighting a collection of over 100,000 photographs – how lucky are they!
Many thankx to the Moderna Museet for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
Another Story: Possessed by the Camera
Annika von Hausswolff (Swedish, b. 1967)
I Am the Runway of Your Thoughts
2008
© Annika von Hausswolff
Andreas Gursky (German, b. 1955)
Bibliothek
1999
© Andreas Gursky/BUS 2011
Candida Höfer (German, b. 1944)
The Louvre in Paris X 2005 – the caryatid hall
2005
© Candida Höfer/BUS 2011
Thomas Ruff (German, b. 1958)
Häuser Nummer 9
1989
© Thomas Ruff/BUS 2011
Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954)
Untitled
2008
© Courtesy of the Artist and Metro Pictures
In 2011, Moderna Museet’s new directors, Daniel Birnbaum and Ann-Sofi Noring, will launch a new presentation of the collection. Another Story gives a fresh angle on art history, based on works from the Moderna Museet collection. We will start by focusing on photography, which will gradually be given a more prominent position, only to fill the entire exhibition of the permanent collection this autumn.
If you want an art collection to develop and stay alive, it can’t remain static. You need to present it in new ways and look at it from new angles. That may sound obvious, but it is not that common. In 2011, Moderna Museet will take a radical step, with Another Story. Photography from the Moderna Museet Collection. This is possibly the most extreme re-hanging of the collection undertaken in the history of the museum.
There is a growing interest in photography today, as proven by the panoply of exhibitions, fairs and festivals throughout the world. And this is hardly surprising. Nowadays, practically everyone is a photographer, at the very least snapping pictures with the camera built into most mobiles.
Moderna Museet’s collection of photography, ranging from 1840 to the present day, is one of the finest in Europe, featuring many of the most prominent names in photo history and comprising more than 100,000 photographs. The collection provides a historic background to the art of photography, and now we are sharing this with all our visitors. Moreover, several magnificent private donations have recently enriched the collection with works by famous artists practising in the field of photography.
Moderna Museet has one of Europe’s finest collections of photography, ranging from 1840 to the present day. Many of the most famous names in photographic history are represented, and the collection comprises more than 100,000 works. The re-hanging of the permanent collection exhibition will be done in three stages. In February, we will open the first part, Another Story: Possessed by the Camera, which presents contemporary photography-based art. Just before summer, we open Another Story: See the World!, presenting the period 1920-1980. This autumn, finally, we look at the early days of photography. Another Story: Written in Light presents the pioneers of photography from 1840 to the first three decades of the 20th century. In autumn 2011 and for the rest of the year, the entire permanent collection exhibition will consist of photography and photo-based art.
Text from the Moderna Museet website [Online] Cited 22/07/2011 no longer available online
Another Story: See the World!
Aleksandr Rodchenko (Russian, 1891-1956)
Sjukov-masten, radiomast i Moskva
1929
© Aleksandr Rodtjenko
August Sander (German, 1876-1964)
Die elegante Frau – Sekrutärin beine WDR
1927 / c. 1975
© August Sander/BUS 2011
Christer Strömholm (Swedish, 1918-2002)
Barcelona
1959
© Christer Strömholm/Bildverksamheten Strömholm
Christer Strömholm (Swedish, 1918-2002)
Hiroshima
1963/1981
© Christer Strömholm/Bildverksamheten Strömholm
Irving Penn (American, 1917-2009)
Frozen Foods with String Beans, New York, 1977
1977
© Irving Penn Foundation
Irving Penn (American, 1917-2009)
Mouth (for L’Oréal), New York, 1986
1986
© Irving Penn Foundation
Another Story: Written in Light
Julia Margaret Cameron (British born India, 1815-1879)
The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty
1866
© Julia Margaret Cameron
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Moderna Museet is ten minutes away from Kungsträdgården, and twenty minutes from T-Centralen or Gamla Stan. Walk past Grand Hotel and Nationalmuseum on Blasieholmen, opposite the Royal Palace. After crossing the bridge to Skeppsholmen, continue up the hill. The entrance to Moderna Museet and Arkitekturmuseet is on the left-hand side.
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