The Exposed: Contemporary Photography from Scandinavia
Various Artists
Hasselblad Foundation
English
Hardcover
15 pages
240 x 220 mm
1994
ISBN Not Available
These innovative photographers tackle a number of themes in their work–AIDS, the war in Bosnia, the middle-class Scandinavian family, the Sami culture of Lapland, and more. Photographers represented: Annika von Hausswolff, Marja Helander, Maria Miesenberger, Ane Mette Ruge, Fin Serck-Hanssen, Martin Sjöberg, Per Olav Torgnesskar, and Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson. This catalogue is an accompaniment to the exhibition of the same name which took place from the 11th of November 1994 to the 11th of Janurary 1995.
About the Publisher
F.W. Hasselblad & Co was founded in 1841 by Fritz Viktor Hasselblad – Victor Hasselblad’s great-grandfather – and initially sold various products such as fabrics, sewing accessories and domestic utensils. The company relocated to the newly built Hasselbladshuset building on Lille Bommen in Gothenburg in the 1870s. Over the following decade, it began importing photographic products, eventually becoming the Swedish retailer for Eastman Kodak Co.
It was only natural for Victor Hasselblad, whose formative years were spent in this environment of cameras and photographs, to develop an intense interest in photography. In 1937, h
e founded the company AB Victor Hasselblad and opened a shop named Victor Foto on Kungsportsplatsen square in Gothenburg. hasselbladfoundation.org
(Source: https://www.hasselbladfoundation.org/en/hasselblad-2/)
