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This group show at Picture This Gallery features a brilliant ensemble of 23 of Sweden’s most celebrated female photographers. Among the highlights from our vintage archive, you’ll find original works by Anna Riwkin, portraying Sámi life in Lapland through her early reportage series.
All featuring photographers: Aida Chehrehgosha, Anna Riwkin, Ann Eringstam, Anna Clarén, Annika Holmér, Camilla Åkrans, Cecilia Edefalk, Denise Grünstein, Eva Klasson, Ewa Stackelberg, Ewa-Mari Johansson, Helena Blomqvist, Julia Hetta, Karolina Henke, Lena Granefelt, Lisen Stibek, Maria Friberg, Maria Miesenberger, Martina Hoogland-Ivanow, Tova Mozard, Trinidad Carrillo, Tuija Lindström, Åsa Sjöström.
In this exhibition, we are taking you into space. One Small Step For Man features NASA’s original photos from the third moon landing, with the Apollo 14 expedition in 1971. Lonely space explorers walking on the white lunar surface, and a tiny spacecraft floating in deep dark space. All photos are taken by the astronaut crew; Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell, and Stuart Roosa, with the specially built Hasselblad space camera. This amazing historical moment is captured in incredible artistic imagery, making them some of the most iconic photos ever taken.
In 1894, the International Meteorological Committee held a meeting in Uppsala to set a scientific standard for clouds and cloud formations. Reviewing over 300 cloud photographs, they discussed definitions and categories. This led to a consensus at a follow-up meeting in Paris in 1896, resulting in the creation of the first edition of the International Cloud Atlas.
This exhibition shows the rare first edition of photocopies, printed in an exclusive color technique called Photochromotypie by Brunner & Hauser in Zurich – 130 years ago.
This exhibition features a selection of photographs from the journey to the former Belgian Congo that Lennart Nilsson undertook together with journalist Svante Löfgren, commissioned by the Black Star photo agency in 1948.
Nilsson’s pictures from Congo were published in several international magazines such as Life Magazine, Illustrated, and Heute. And, was later exhibited in the FOMU photo museum in Antwerpen in 2022.
Staffan Hallström (1914–1976) is recognized as one of the most important painters in Sweden. He is most known for his painting Ingens Hundar (Nobody´s Dogs), of which he made numerous variations throughout his whole career. In 1971 he did a unique series of painted photo collages in a collaboration with the photographer Hans André. Black and white photographs of urban environments were used as canvases, as Hallström painted his signature motive of stray dogs. Tired and lost, his packs of dogs interact with the city where no humans are seen. Dystopical and cheerless, these pictures can be seen as displays of existential crisis, and a comment on the absurdities of modern-day life in the 1970s.
As a pioneer of pictorialism, Henry B. Goodwin was one of the first photographers in Sweden to think of photography as an art form rather than a medium for documentation. In his unique experimental way, he approached his subjects like a painter.
Goodwin became a famous name in Stockholm and during the early 1900s, he would photograph both local and international actors, dancers, and other celebrities in the city. Dark tones and softened focus became the signum of his romantic Jugend style, which took his photographic work to art saloons in New York, Los Angeles, and London.
Mia Green (1875-1949) was a Swedish war correspondent and one of the world’s first female war photographers, documenting a part of Europe’s history between 1915 and 1918. During that period, 75,000 Russian, German, and Austro-Hungarian war invalids were exchanged at the small border town of Haparanda, Sweden, where Mia Green was working as a photographer. Her photographs of survivors of World War I are a powerful record of a little-known part of European history.
Pehr Vilhelm Berggren, known as Guillaume Berggren, (1835-1920), was a Swedish photographer active in Constantinople, Turkey. Berggren studied photography in Germany and then opened a successful studio in Constantinople (now Istanbul), where he became one of the leading photographers of his time.
Berggren was especially drawn to the wide array of craftsmen and artisans in the city, and was one of the first photographers to adopt the style of depicting different occupations. The style was adopted much later by photographers such as August Sanders and Irving Penn.
Eurenius, Wilhelm Abraham (1830-1892) and Quist, Peter Ludvig (1833-1924), were the creative minds behind the photography studio Eurenius & Quist, founded in 1858 in Stockholm. They were one of Stockholm’s first and most frequently hired photographers, and one of the first in Sweden to make the transition from the daguerreotype to photography on paper.
The photographic series Folkdräkter captures Swedish and Norwegian folk costumes and were colored by hand, which added a new dimension to photography. The first photos were most likely taken by Quist around 1855 but were later expanded to more subjects together with Eurenius.
Johannes Jaeger (1832–1908) was the photographer à la mode among the social and economic elite of the late 19th century. In addition to high society portraits, Jaeger worked with more experimental photography. He was also one of the first commercial photographers. In this exhibition, we showed examples of how he explored the possibilities of the photographic medium.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry B Goodwin became a pioneer in Swedish artistic photography. In 1920 he published the magnificent work “Vårt vackra Stockholm” (Our Beautiful Stockholm), where Swedish writers and artists contributed and he himself provided most of the illustrations. With this exhibition, Liljevalchs celebrates the 100th anniversary of the book.
Here, we exhibited our first edition copy of the book, which is numbered 1/200.